![[Man] by David Octavius Hill|Robert Adamson|Hill and Adamson](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/man-268806.webp)
Medium
Salted paper print from paper negative
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Pirie MacDonald and Mr. and Mrs. Everett Tutchings, 1943
Accession Number
43.10.51
Tags
MenPortraits
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 ...