David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
Robert Stephen Rintoul, 1787 - 1858. Editor of The Spectator [b]
About this artwork
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title:Robert Stephen Rintoul, 1787 - 1858. Editor of The Spectator [b]
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accession number:PGP HA 5277
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materials:Carbon print
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date created:1916
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measurements:19.70 x 14.90 cm
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credit line:Elliot Collection, bequeathed 1950
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…