A Newhaven Pilot's Cottage Door

1845

David Octavius Hill

Artist, Scottish, 1802 - 1870

Robert Adamson

Artist, Scottish, 1821 - 1848

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    salted paper print

  • Credit Line

    Patrons' Permanent Fund

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 14.8 × 20 cm (5 13/16 × 7 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1995.36.89

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

J. Dunbar, Esq., Dublin, Scotland; (Weston Gallery, Inc., Carmel, CA); David and Mary Robinson, Sausalito, CA, 1985; NGA purchase, 1995.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1986

  • 19th Century Photographs from the Collection of Mary and David Robinson, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1986.

1995

  • The First Century of Photography: New Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

Bibliography

1976

  • An Early Victorian Album. Edited by Colin Ford. New York, 1976, illus. p.160.

1981

  • Stevenson, Sara. David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson: Catalogue of their Calotypes Taken Between 1843 in the Collection of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Edinburgh,1981: repro. p.199.

1991

  • Stevenson, Sara. Hill and Adamson's The Fishermen and Women of the Firth of Forth. Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1991, illus. pl.35.

Inscriptions

on mount, upper left in graphite: 23; on verso, by later hand, upper left in graphite: 9215 T [circled]

Wikidata ID

Q64146024

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