David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
Professor Alexander Monro, 'Tertius', 1773 - 1859. Anatomist
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title:Professor Alexander Monro, 'Tertius', 1773 - 1859. Anatomist
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date created:Probably 29 August 1844
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printed by:James Craig Annan (1864 - 1946) Scottish
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materials:Photogravure
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measurements:20.40 x 15.10 cm
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accession number:PGP HA 388
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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...