David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson

Ivy-covered tree at Colinton. 'The Fairy Tree' [Landscape 45]

About this artwork

This is a calotype negative from which the positive image would be printed. Early photographic chemicals responded at different speeds to different colours; they were slow to react to the green of trees and grass. This may explain why, Hill, who was an experienced landscape painter, only took a few landscape calotypes.

Updated before 2020

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David Octavius Hill

David Octavius Hill