David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
Professor Alexander Monro, 'Tertius', 1773 - 1859. Anatomist [c]
![David Octavius Hill, Professor Alexander Monro, 'Tertius', 1773 - 1859. Anatomist [c]](https://www.nationalgalleries.org/sites/default/files/styles/postcard/public/externals/87486.jpg?itok=2p1OMoiI)
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title:Professor Alexander Monro, 'Tertius', 1773 - 1859. Anatomist [c]
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date created:Probably 29 August 1844 (date on variant negative)
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materials:Salted paper print
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measurements:21.10 x 15.90 cm
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credit line:Gift of Mrs. Riddell in memory of Peter Fletcher Riddell, 1985
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accession number:PGP R 169.22
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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...
