Dundee Art Galleries & Museum: 272-1987-276
Artist: Richardson, William
Date: 1844
State: 1/1
Size: 43.8 x 70.5 cm
Medium: Etching
| Details | Etching. Black ink on good quality white paper. Lettered along bottom: ‘Printed by David Octavius Hill RSA. Engraved by William Richardson’. ‘Edinburgh January 1844 Published by Alexander Hill, Publisher to the Royal Scottish Academy’.Label on back: ‘Doig, Wilson and Wheatley. Fine Art Dealers and Printsellers Picture Restorers and Framers to His Majesty the King. 90 George Street, Edinburgh. Established 1840’. |
| Description | The etching was taken from the original painting (unlocated) by the Perth born David Octavius Hill. A talented painter Hill (1802-1870), along with his partner the St Andrews born Robert Adamson (1821-1848), provided an important contribution to the development of the new art of photography which had only been announced in 1839. By 1843 Hill and Adamson had established the first photographic studio in Scotland at Calton Hill in Edinburgh.
Adamson was taught the early calotype process by his brother John (who was also curator of the University of St Andrews’ Literary and Philosophical Society) and David Brewster, Principal of the University of St Andrews. Although Hill and Adamson only worked together for four years before Adamson’s death they produced over 3000 prints. |
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