David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
Sir Philip Crampton, 1777 - 1858. President of the Royal College of Surgeons, Surgeon General to the Forces and Surgeon in Ordinary to George IV...
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title:Sir Philip Crampton, 1777 - 1858. President of the Royal College of Surgeons, Surgeon General to the Forces and Surgeon in Ordinary to George IV and Queen Victoria [b]
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date created:1843 - 1847
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materials:Calotype negative
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measurements:22.00 x 16.60 cm
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credit line:Elliot Collection, bequeathed 1950
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accession number:PGP HA 661
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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...
