[Officer of the 92nd Gordon Highlanders Reading to the Troops, Edinburgh Castle]
April 9, 1846
![[Officer of the 92nd Gordon Highlanders Reading to the Troops, Edinburgh Castle] by David Octavius Hill|Robert Adamson|Hill and Adamson](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/officer-of-the-92nd-gordon-highlanders-reading-to-282028.webp)
Medium
Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions
14.5 x 19.2 cm (5 11/16 x 7 9/16 in. )
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Rubel Collection, Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee, and Harriette and Noel Levine Gifts, 1997
Accession Number
1997.382.25
Tags
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 ...