COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
GEH_.67:0083:0007
AMICA Library Year:
2002
Object Type:
Photographs
Creator Name:
Hill & Adamson
Creator Nationality:
European; British; Scottish
Creator Name-CRT:
Hill & Adamson
Title:
The Artist and the Gravedigger
View:
Full View
Creation Date:
ca. 1845
Creation Start Date:
1843
Creation End Date:
1847
Materials and Techniques:
salted paper print
Subject Terms:
architecture, tomb
Subject Terms:
landscape, figures in
Subject Terms:
landscape, cemetery
Creation Place:
Scotland, Edinburgh
Dimensions:
20.5 x 14.8 cm.
AMICA Contributor:
George Eastman House
Owner Location:
Rochester, New York, USA
ID Number:
67:0083:0007
Credit Line:
Gift of Alvin Langdon Coburn
Inscriptions:
verso-(in pencil) "31" "In Greyfriars Churchyard 'artist Gravedigger"
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.//
Related Image Identifier Link:
GEH_.196700830007.tif
