David Octavius Hill & Alexander McGlashan
David Maclagan 1785-1865 (centre) Sir Andrew Douglas MacLagan 1812-1900 (right) and probably one of Andrew's sons, perhaps Robert Craig MacLagan...
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title:David Maclagan 1785-1865 (centre) Sir Andrew Douglas MacLagan 1812-1900 (right) and probably one of Andrew's sons, perhaps Robert Craig MacLagan MD 1839-1919
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date created:About 1860
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materials:Albumen print
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measurements:23.80 x 28.80 cm
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credit line:Purchased 1984
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accession number:PGP 46.5
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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...