David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
Newhaven boy ('King Fisher' or 'His Faither's Breeks') [Newhaven 8]
![David Octavius Hill, Newhaven boy ('King Fisher' or 'His Faither's Breeks') [Newhaven 8]](https://www.nationalgalleries.org/sites/default/files/styles/postcard/public/externals/144316.jpg?itok=k8we9DCA)
About this artwork
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artists:
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title:Newhaven boy ('King Fisher' or 'His Faither's Breeks') [Newhaven 8]
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date created:1843 - 1847
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materials:Salted paper print
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measurements:19.20 x 13.90 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 169.68
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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...
