David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
Spencer Compton, 2nd Marquis of Northampton, 1790 - 1851. President of the Royal Society [d]
![James Craig Annan, Spencer Compton, 2nd Marquis of Northampton, 1790 - 1851. President of the Royal Society [d]](https://www.nationalgalleries.org/sites/default/files/styles/postcard/public/externals/144201.jpg?itok=3jEGv239)
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title:Spencer Compton, 2nd Marquis of Northampton, 1790 - 1851. President of the Royal Society [d]
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date created:1843 - 1847
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printed by:James Craig Annan (1864 - 1946) Scottish
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materials:Photogravure
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measurements:19.9 x 14.9 cm
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credit line:Gift of Mrs. Riddell in memory of Peter Fletcher Riddell, 1985
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accession number:PGP R 986
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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...
