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Hill & Adamson
Scottish (active 1843-1848)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: The Artist and the Gravedigger

ca. 1845
salted paper print
20.5 x 14.8 cm.
Gift of Alvin Langdon Coburn
GEH NEG: 42849
67:0083:0007

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Schwarz, Heinrich. --David Octavius Hill: Master of Photography.-- England, London: George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd., 1932.//
Dougan, R.O. --The Scottish Tradition in Photography.-- Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson & Sons, Ltd., 1949. pl. 7.//
National Portrait Gallery. --The Hill/Adamson Albums: A Selection of Victorian Prints.-- London: Times Newspapers, 1973. pl. 21.//
Ovenden, Graham (ed.). --Hill & Adamson Photographs.-- England, London: Academy Editions, 1973. p. 62.//
Ford, Colin. --An Early Victorian Album: The Photographic Masterpieces (1843-1847) of David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson.-- New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. p. 234.//
Stevenson, Sara. --David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson: Catalogue of their Calotypes Taken Between 1843 and 1847 in the Collection of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.-- Edinburgh, Scotland: National Galleries of Scotland, 1981. p. 191.//
Ward, John & Stevenson, Sara. --Printed Light: The Scientific Art of William Henry Fox Talbot and David Octabius Hill with Robert Adamson.-- Edinburgh: Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1986. p. 134.//
This image was part of GEH's 2002 submission to AMICO (Art Museum Image Consortium).//

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "D.O. Hill and Robert Adamson: Masters of the Calotype", US, NY, Rochester February 6 - June 6, 1993.//

INSCRIPTION: verso-(in pencil) "31" "In Greyfriars Churchyard 'artist Gravedigger"

NOTES: Catalogued 7/90, MMC. Greyfriars' Churchyard, the Dennistoun monument with D.O. Hill (1802-1870), his nieces the Misses Watson and an unknown man.

SUBJECTS:
architecture, tomb / Dennistoun's Tomb
landscape, figures in
landscape, cemetery

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