David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
Hugh Miller, 1802 - 1856. Geologist and author [c]
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title:Hugh Miller, 1802 - 1856. Geologist and author [c]
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date created:1844 - 1846
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materials:Salted paper print
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measurements:27.60 x 24.10 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 169.42
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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...