David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
Greyfriars' Churchyard, a group of monuments including the Paton and Chalmers Monuments, with Heriot's Hospital in the background and David...
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title:Greyfriars' Churchyard, a group of monuments including the Paton and Chalmers Monuments, with Heriot's Hospital in the background and David Octavius Hill seated on the monument [Edinburgh 65]
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date created:1843 - 1847
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materials:Salted paper print
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measurements:14.50 x 19.80 cm
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accession number:PGP HA 2271
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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...
