Hill & Adamson
Scottish (active 1843-1848)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: A medieval group; D.O. Hill on the right

1843/48
salted paper print
15.3 x 20.2 cm.
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEG: 24552
81:2396:0032

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13836:19
NON-GEH NUMBER: 115

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 106.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Survey of the History of 19th Century Photography", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Second Floor Gallery, March 1985 - April 1987, 1985.//
"D.O. Hill and Robert Adamson: Masters of the Calotype", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - North Gallery, February 6 - June 6, 1993.//

INSCRIPTION: recto - (signed, in pencil, below image right) "D.O. Hill" "115"

NOTES: Catalogued 12/84, JB/PB, updated 7/90, MMC. Photograph originally bound in album. D.O. Hill (1802-1870). Hill was the partner of Robert Adamson. He was also a landscape painter and served as Secretary of the Royal Scottish Academy.

SUBJECTS:
allegory
dress, armour
portrait, males