About this artwork
These portraits are some of the earliest photographs of working men and women. In the 1840s, when photography was in its infancy, David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson established a studio in Edinburgh. Regularly visiting the nearby fishing village of Newhaven, then just outside the city, they made upwards of 130 studies of the fishermen and their families. They intended to publish these photographs in a book – a plan which was prevented by Robert Adamson’s early death in 1848.
Published March 2022
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artists:
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title:James Linton [Newhaven 2]
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date created:1843 - 1847
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materials:Salted paper print
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measurements:19.30 x 14.10 cm
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accession number:PGP HA 3714
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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...