David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
Rev. Dr William Scoresby, 1789 - 1857. Whaler, Scientist and Arctic explorer [b]
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title:Rev. Dr William Scoresby, 1789 - 1857. Whaler, Scientist and Arctic explorer [b]
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date created:1843 - 1847
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materials:Carbon print
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measurements:19.7 x 14.4 cm
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credit line:Edinburgh Photographic Society Collection, gifted 1987
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accession number:PGP EPS 269
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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...