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.
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title:Ivy-covered tree at Colinton. 'The Fairy Tree' [Landscape 45]
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date created:1843 - 1847
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materials:Calotype negative
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measurements:21.70 x 16.30 cm
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credit line:Elliot Collection, bequeathed 1950
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accession number:PGP HA 428
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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...