Hill & Adamson / The Artist and the Gravedigger / ca. 1845

Hill & Adamson
The Artist and the Gravedigger
ca. 1845
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Creator Name: Hill & Adamson
Creator Nationality: European; British; Scottish
Creator Name-CRT: Hill & Adamson
Title: The Artist and the Gravedigger
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Creation Start Date: 1843
Creation End Date: 1847
Creation Date: ca. 1845
Creation Place: Scotland, Edinburgh
Object Type: Photographs
Materials and Techniques: salted paper print
Dimensions: 20.5 x 14.8 cm.
Inscriptions: verso-(in pencil) "31" "In Greyfriars Churchyard 'artist Gravedigger"
AMICA Contributor: George Eastman House
Owner Location: Rochester, New York, USA
ID Number: 67:0083:0007
Credit Line: Gift of Alvin Langdon Coburn
Rights: http://www.geh.org/rights.html
Subject Terms: architecture, tomb
Subject Terms: landscape, cemetery
Subject Terms: landscape, figures in
Exhibition History: "D.O. Hill and Robert Adamson: Masters of the Calotype", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - North Gallery, February 6 - June 6, 1993.//
Related Document Description: Schwarz, Heinrich. --David Octavius Hill: Master of Photography.-- England, London: George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd., 1932.//
Related Document Description: Dougan, R.O. --The Scottish Tradition in Photography.-- Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson & Sons, Ltd., 1949. pl. 7.//
Related Document Description: National Portrait Gallery. --The Hill/Adamson Albums: A Selection of Victorian Prints.-- London: Times Newspapers, 1973. pl. 21.//
Related Document Description: Ovenden, Graham (ed.). --Hill & Adamson Photographs.-- England, London: Academy Editions, 1973. p. 62.//
Related Document Description: 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.//
Related Document Description: 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.//
Related Document Description: 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.//
AMICA ID: GEH_.67:0083:0007
AMICA Library Year: 2002
Media Metadata Rights: ? George Eastman House

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