Burnside, Fife / Island in the Almond River
Medium
Salted paper print from paper negative
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937
Accession Number
37.98.1.47
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the serene Scottish countryside with *Burnside, Fife / Island in the Almond River a captivating salted paper print from a paper negative created by the pioneering duo David Octavius Hill and Adamson between 184 and 1847. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Photographs Department, this work exemplifies the calotype process—a groundbreaking early photographic technique using paper negatives that produced soft, textured images with a painterly quality, bridging art and science. Hill, a skilled painter, and Adamson, a talented chemist and calotypist, formed one of photography's fir...
About the Artist
David Octavius Hill|Robert Adamson|Hill and Adamson · 1802–1870
David Octavius Hill (1802–1870) was a Scottish painter, photographer, and arts administrator whose pioneering photography partnership with Robert Adamson from 1843 to 1847 transformed the medium into an art form. Born in Perth and trained in Edinburgh, Hill established himself as a landscape painter and became secretary of the Royal Scottish Academy, a position he held for nearly forty years. His ...