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Hill, David Octavius, 1802-1870 (Painter and Photographer)

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Found in 59 Collections and/or Records:

Murthly Castle, 1821

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Identifier: Coll-10/4/80
Scope and Contents

Murthly Castle. Lithograph. 1821. Hill, David Octavius, 1802-1870, Artist, Lithographer; Hullmandel, Charles Joseph, 1789-1850, Printer; Hill, Thomas, Publisher.

Publisher statement: Pub. By Thos. Hill, George Stt. Perth.

Published in: D. O. Hill, Sketches of Scenery in Perthshire (1821).

Dates: 1821
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 4. Perth, Forfar, Dundee

[New General Assembly Hall], 2 July 1846

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Identifier: Coll-10/1/65
Scope and Contents

[New General Assembly Hall]. Calotype. 2 July 1846. Hill, David Octavius, 1802-1870, Photographer; Adamson, Robert, 1821-1848, Photographer.

Note: Pencil annotation: 'D. O. Hill. 2 July 1846'.

Dates: 2 July 1846
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 1. Edinburgh

Newspaper clipping entitled "Sun-Drawing", handwritten text entitled "A negative 'Calotype' by D. G. Hill R.S.A + R. Adamson About 1845", and newspaper clipping about "D. O. Hill", undated

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Identifier: Coll-1073/1/91
Scope and Contents

Newspaper clipping entitled "Sun-Drawing", a text handwritten on an envelope entitled "A negative 'Calotype' by D. G. Hill R.S.A + R. Adamson About 1845", and, inside said envelope, a newspaper cutting with an article of "D. O. Hill - Famous Calotypes". Both about the early history of photography, in particular daguerreotypes and calotypes. Undated.

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Hill and Adamson Calotypes / Calotype Portraits I. Aiken-Candlish

Notebook No.147, 15 June 1846 - July 1846

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 6: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/147
Content warning: This Notebook contains a record of Charles Lyell’s return to the UK after his second travel to America (Notebooks 121- 145), and so covers American and UK topics, whilst he is based on London, before travelling to Kinnordy - via Edinburgh, Granton and Craig Crook Castle. Note on pg. 70 indexed as 'Ld Cockburn, Hill's daguerrotype' indicates they visited Bonaly, where the Lyell were photographed. This notebook has a hard light brown cover with red on the spine and in triangles on the corners....
Dates: 15 June 1846 - July 1846
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Scientific Notebooks

Ochtertyre, 1821

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Identifier: Coll-10/4/47
Scope and Contents

Ochtertyre. Lithograph. 1821. Hill, David Octavius, 1802-1870, Artist, Lithographer; Hullmandel, Charles Joseph, 1789-1850, Printer; Hill, Thomas, Publisher.

Publisher statement: Pub. By Thos. Hill, George Strt. Perth.

Published in: D. O. Hill, Sketches of Scenery in Perthshire (1821).

Dates: 1821
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 4. Perth, Forfar, Dundee

Palace and Town of Hamilton and Junction of the Avon and Clyde. From the Roman Camp near Dalzell, undated

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Identifier: Coll-10/6/83
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Palace and Town of Hamilton and Junction of the Avon and Clyde. From the Roman Camp near Dalzell. Lithograph. Undated. Hill, David Octavius, 1802-1870, Artist; Haghe, Louis, 1806-1885, Artist; Day, William, 1797-1845, Printer; Hill, Thomas, & Son, Publisher.

Publisher statement: Published by Thos. Hill & Son 53 South Bridge Edinburgh; Printed by W. Day, 59 Gt. Queen St. London.

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 6. Stirling, Lanark (Glasgow), Renfrew, Dunbarton

[Perth], 1843

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Identifier: Coll-10/4/6
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[Perth]. Line engraving. 1843. Hill, David Octavius, 1802-1870, Artist; Smith, William Raymond (Engraver), Engraver; Adam and Charles Black (Firm), Publisher.

Published in: Thomas Dick Lauder, Memorial of the Royal Progress in Scotland (1843).

Note: State before letters. Pencil annotation, below right: 'W R Smith'.

Dates: 1843
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 4. Perth, Forfar, Dundee

Sanquhar, with Crighton Peel, 1840

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Identifier: Coll-10/5/182
Scope and Contents

Sanquhar, with Crighton Peel. Line engraving. 1840. Hill, David Octavius, 1802-1870, Artist; Sands, Robert, 1782-1855, Engraver; Blackie & Son, Publisher.

Published in: J. Wilson and R. Chambers, The Land of Burns (1840), vol. II.

Note: Titled in pencil.

Dates: 1840
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 5. Arran, Bute, Ayr, Wigton, Kirkcudbright, Dumfries

[Scott Monument], c.1845

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Identifier: Coll-10/3/64
Scope and Contents

[Scott Monument]. Calotype. c.1845. Hill, David Octavius, 1802-1870, Photographer; Adamson, Robert, 1821-1848, Photographer.

Note: Pencil annotation at bottom left: 'D.O.H'.

Dates: c.1845
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 3. Peebles, Selkirk, Roxburgh, Berwick

Shanter Farm and Bay, Carrick, 1840

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Identifier: Coll-10/5/56(ii)
Scope and Contents

Shanter Farm and Bay, Carrick. Line engraving. 1840. Hill, David Octavius, 1802-1870, Artist; Richardson, William, Engraver; Blackie & Son, Publisher.

Publisher statement: Published by Blackie & Son Glasgow.

Published in: J. Wilson and R. Chambers, The Land of Burns (1840), vol. I.

Dates: 1840
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 5. Arran, Bute, Ayr, Wigton, Kirkcudbright, Dumfries