David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
Captain Cox [probably Captain Henry Cox, b. 1794. Commander of the coastguard station at St Andrews [a]]
![David Octavius Hill, Captain Cox [probably Captain Henry Cox, b. 1794. Commander of the coastguard station at St Andrews [a]]](https://www.nationalgalleries.org/sites/default/files/styles/postcard/public/externals/104242.jpg?itok=T96L2ESa)
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title:Captain Cox [probably Captain Henry Cox, b. 1794. Commander of the coastguard station at St Andrews [a]]
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date created:1843 - 1847
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materials:Calotype negative
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measurements:21.50 x 15.70 cm
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credit line:Elliot Collection, bequeathed 1950
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accession number:PGP HA 656
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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...
