David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
Mrs Carnie Noble, unknown woman, Bessy Crombie, Mary Combe, Mrs Margaret (Dryburgh) Lyell, Rev. Dr James Fairbairn and James Gall. Called 'The...
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title:Mrs Carnie Noble, unknown woman, Bessy Crombie, Mary Combe, Mrs Margaret (Dryburgh) Lyell, Rev. Dr James Fairbairn and James Gall. Called 'The Pastor's Visit' [Newhaven 56]
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date created:1843 - 1847
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materials:Salted paper print
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measurements:14.00 x 18.00 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 169.85
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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...
