David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
Alexander Hill, 1800 - 1866. Publisher and printseller; brother of David Octavius Hill [d]
![David Octavius Hill, Alexander Hill, 1800 - 1866. Publisher and printseller; brother of David Octavius Hill [d]](https://www.nationalgalleries.org/sites/default/files/styles/postcard/public/externals/144332.jpg?itok=U0JC_EGN)
About this artwork
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artists:
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title:Alexander Hill, 1800 - 1866. Publisher and printseller; brother of David Octavius Hill [d]
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date created:1843 - 1847; dated (on negative) June 6
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materials:Salted paper print
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measurements:17.40 x 13.00 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 169.40
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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...
