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
Robert Adamson
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…
Robert Adamson
Robert Adamson was one of the first professional photographers, setting up in business in Edinburgh in March 1843. He had aspired to be an engineer but his health was too poor. His brother, John, who was involved in the early experiments with photography in St Andrews, taught him the calotype…
