David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
Rev. Dr John Duncan, 1796 - 1870. Missionary in Pesth, Hungary; Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Languages at New College, Edinburgh [a]
![David Octavius Hill, Rev. Dr John Duncan, 1796 - 1870. Missionary in Pesth, Hungary; Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Languages at New College, Edinburgh [a]](https://www.nationalgalleries.org/sites/default/files/styles/postcard/public/externals/153957.jpg?itok=5t_yaUeq)
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title:Rev. Dr John Duncan, 1796 - 1870. Missionary in Pesth, Hungary; Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Languages at New College, Edinburgh [a]
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date created:1843 - 1847
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materials:Carbon print
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measurements:20 x 14.4 cm
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credit line:Edinburgh Photographic Society Collection, gifted 1987
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accession number:PGP EPS 261
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David Octavius Hill
David Octavius Hill
A painter and a lithographer by training, David Octavius Hill is best remembered for the beauty of the calotypes he and Robert Adamson produced together. Hill was a sociable and kind-hearted man who did much to support the arts in Scotland and between 1830 and 1836 he was the unpaid Secretary of...
