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Photographic prints

David Octavius Hill, Robert Adamson, c. 1845

University of St Andrews Library, St Andrews

All 9 photographs result from the collaboration of Hill and Robert Adamson before Adamson's early death in 1848 using the calotype process developed by Henry Fox Talbot in 1839. 1) St. Andrew's Harbour; 2) Mary Hamilton, Lady Ruthven; 3) Burnside, Fife; 4) The Fishergate, St. Andrew's; 5) Rev. Dr. James Brewster; 6) Mrs Anna Jamieson; 7) Rev. Dr. Thomas Chalmers; 8) Scott Monument, Edinburgh, during construction; 9) Roslin Chapel.

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Title of artwork, date

Photographic prints, c. 1845

Date supported

2005

Medium and material

Salted paper prints

Dimensions

Various

Grant

15000

Total cost

39000

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