David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
Group at Bonaly Towers. John Henning, unknown man, boy and woman, perhaps Miss Horner, perhaps Lady Lyell, David Octavius Hill, Miss and Mrs...
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title:Group at Bonaly Towers. John Henning, unknown man, boy and woman, perhaps Miss Horner, perhaps Lady Lyell, David Octavius Hill, Miss and Mrs Cockburn, Mrs Cleghorn and another woman on the stairs and Lord Cockburn [Group 73]
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date created:1843 - 1847
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materials:Salted paper print
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measurements:15.50 x 21.00 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 169.108
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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...