David Octavius Hill
Alexander Nasmyth, 1758 - 1840. (Verso) (With his wife Barbara Foulis)
About this artwork
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artist:David Octavius Hill (1802 - 1870) Scottish
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title:Alexander Nasmyth, 1758 - 1840. (Verso) (With his wife Barbara Foulis)
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date created:1829
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materials:Ink and wash on paper
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measurements:15.30 x 20.00 cm
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credit line:Purchased 1987
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accession number:PG 2729 B
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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...