Linlithgow from the railway station [Landscape 9]
About this artwork
This photograph is among the earliest taken of the railways in Scotland. In 1845 Hill and Adamson travelled to Linlithgow, probably by train, in order to photograph the main sights of the town. A number of the photographs they made during this visit show the train station, which opened just three years earlier. The prominence of the station in the photographs demonstrates the increasing importance of the railways to the fortunes of this small Scottish town.
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title:Linlithgow from the railway station [Landscape 9]
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date created:1843 - 1847
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materials:Salted paper print
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measurements:31.20 x 40.00 cm
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accession number:PGP HA 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...