David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
Greyfriars' Churchyard, the Naismith Monument with Thomas Duncan and David Octavius Hill [Edinburgh 50]
![David Octavius Hill, Greyfriars' Churchyard, the Naismith Monument with Thomas Duncan and David Octavius Hill [Edinburgh 50]](https://www.nationalgalleries.org/sites/default/files/styles/postcard/public/externals/144401.jpg?itok=Y1nC9mlx)
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title:Greyfriars' Churchyard, the Naismith Monument with Thomas Duncan and David Octavius Hill [Edinburgh 50]
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date created:1843 - 1845 (Thomas Duncan died in April 1845)
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materials:Salted paper print
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measurements:19.20 x 14.50 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 169.97
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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...
