Title Page of 'An Hundred Pictures in Calotype'

Category

Library Item

Item no

3574

Title

Title page of 'An Hundred Pictures in Calotype' by D. O. Hill R. S. A. and Robert Adamson

Artist / maker

Hill, David Octavius

Date

1847

Size

57.9 x 43.5 cm

Type

Document

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Robert Adamson, an engineering student, was introduced to the calotype process by his brother, a pupil of Fox Talbot's friend Sir David Brewster. Fox Talbot's patent on the process only applied to England and Wales, so Adamson was free to open a studio in Edinburgh in 1843. In that year, Brewster introduced David Octavious Hill, a landscape painter and secretary of the Scottish Acadamy of Painting, to Adamson. Hill planned to create a commemorative portrait showing the signing of the Act of Separation, which established the Free Church of Scotland. To make this huge project practicable, he and Adamson created studies of the participants of that historic meeting, using the calotype process. The Hill and Adamson partnership went far beyond this work, including landscape scenes and famously portraits of the fishing community of Newhaven.

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