Detail View: The AMICA Library: The Artist and the Gravedigger

AMICA ID: 
GEH_.67:0083:0007
AMICA Library Year: 
2002
Object Type: 
Photographs
Creator Name: 
Hill & Adamson
Creator Nationality: 
European; British; Scottish
Creator Name-CRT: 
Hill & Adamson
Title: 
The Artist and the Gravedigger
View: 
Full View
Creation Date: 
ca. 1845
Creation Start Date: 
1843
Creation End Date: 
1847
Materials and Techniques: 
salted paper print
Subject Terms: 
architecture, tomb
Subject Terms: 
landscape, figures in
Subject Terms: 
landscape, cemetery
Creation Place: 
Scotland, Edinburgh
Dimensions: 
20.5 x 14.8 cm.
AMICA Contributor: 
George Eastman House
Owner Location: 
Rochester, New York, USA
ID Number: 
67:0083:0007
Credit Line: 
Gift of Alvin Langdon Coburn
Inscriptions: 
verso-(in pencil) "31" "In Greyfriars Churchyard 'artist Gravedigger"
Rights: 
Exhibition History: 
"D.O. Hill and Robert Adamson: Masters of the Calotype", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - North Gallery, February 6 - June 6, 1993.//
Related Document Description: 
Schwarz, Heinrich. --David Octavius Hill: Master of Photography.-- England, London: George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd., 1932.//
Related Document Description: 
Dougan, R.O. --The Scottish Tradition in Photography.-- Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson & Sons, Ltd., 1949. pl. 7.//
Related Document Description: 
National Portrait Gallery. --The Hill/Adamson Albums: A Selection of Victorian Prints.-- London: Times Newspapers, 1973. pl. 21.//
Related Document Description: 
Ovenden, Graham (ed.). --Hill & Adamson Photographs.-- England, London: Academy Editions, 1973. p. 62.//
Related Document Description: 
Ford, Colin. --An Early Victorian Album: The Photographic Masterpieces (1843-1847) of David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson.-- New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. p. 234.//
Related Document Description: 
Stevenson, Sara. --David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson: Catalogue of their Calotypes Taken Between 1843 and 1847 in the Collection of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.-- Edinburgh, Scotland: National Galleries of Scotland, 1981. p. 191.//
Related Document Description: 
Ward, John & Stevenson, Sara. --Printed Light: The Scientific Art of William Henry Fox Talbot and David Octabius Hill with Robert Adamson.-- Edinburgh: Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1986. p. 134.//
Related Image Identifier Link: 
GEH_.196700830007.tif