[Tolly's Nullah, Calcutta]
Captain R. B. Hill
1850s
![[Tolly's Nullah, Calcutta] by Captain R. B. Hill](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/tollys-nullah-calcutta-287845.webp)
Medium
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
Image: 18.3 x 24 cm (7 3/16 x 9 7/16 in.) Mount: 21 x 28.2 cm (8 1/4 x 11 1/8 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.948.2 (28)
Tags
ArchitectureLandscapes
About the Artist
Captain R. B. Hill
Captain R. B. Hill was a British artist whose work appears to have emerged from a tradition of amateur and military draughtsmanship that flourished in Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Precise dates and full biographical details have not been established in the major art historical literature, but the military rank attached to his name situates him within the significant trad...