David Octavius Hill

David Octavius Hill British, b. Scotland, 1802-1870; and Robert Adamson British, b. Scotland, 1821-1848 Brought together out of necessity, David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson proved to be collaborators whose work was as inspired as its impact has been long lasting. Hill was born in Perth to a family in the printing and publishing business. Trained as a painter, an occupation pursued throughout his life, Hill also was an illustrator and lithographer. His earliest work, Sketches of Scenery in Perthshire Drawn from Nature and on Stone (1821), published before he was 20, was one of the...