View of Fingal's Cave
David Octavius Hill
1820–70
Medium
Pen and black ink, brush and wash, over graphite
Dimensions
sheet: 2 15/16 x 4 13/16 in. (7.4 x 12.2 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Walter Schatzki, 1959
Accession Number
59.532.4
Tags
Caves
About the Artist
David Octavius Hill · 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 ...