David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
Greyfriars' Churchyard, the Martyrs' Memorial and the McCulloch Monument. The figures may be David Octavius Hill and Miss Watson [Edinburgh 54]
![David Octavius Hill, Greyfriars' Churchyard, the Martyrs' Memorial and the McCulloch Monument. The figures may be David Octavius Hill and Miss Watson [Edinburgh 54]](https://www.nationalgalleries.org/sites/default/files/styles/postcard/public/externals/144400.jpg?itok=6cB0IMKm)
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title:Greyfriars' Churchyard, the Martyrs' Memorial and the McCulloch Monument. The figures may be David Octavius Hill and Miss Watson [Edinburgh 54]
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date created:1843 - 1847
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materials:Salted paper print
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measurements:20.50 x 15.50 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 169.96
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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...
