David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
John Henning and Alexander Handyside Ritchie and David Octavius Hill [Group 125]
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title:John Henning and Alexander Handyside Ritchie and David Octavius Hill [Group 125]
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date created:1843 - 1847
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materials:Calotype negative
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measurements:21.60 x 16.70 cm
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credit line:Purchased 2007
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accession number:PGP HA 5401
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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...