About this artwork
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artist:David Octavius Hill (1802 - 1870) Scottish
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title:The High Street, Edinburgh during the Fire of 1824
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date created:Dated 1824
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materials:Watercolour and bodycolour over pencil on paper
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measurements:11.80 x 17.90 cm
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object type:
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credit line:William Finlay Watson Bequest 1881
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accession number:D 2464 A
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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...