David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
Henry Baines. Curator of the York Museum
About this artwork
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title:Henry Baines. Curator of the York Museum
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accession number:PGP HA 89
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materials:Calotype negative (and modern print)
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date created:28 September 1844
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measurements:21.30 x 16.00 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…