Lot Essay
Examples of the landscape work of Hill and Adamson are rare outside of institutional collections.
'Burnside', mid 1840s
Details
DAVID OCTAVIUS HILL AND ROBERT ADAMSON
'Burnside', mid 1840s
Calotype, 6.3/8 x 8¼ in., watermarked J Whatman, titled in pencil on verso.
'Burnside', mid 1840s
Calotype, 6.3/8 x 8¼ in., watermarked J Whatman, titled in pencil on verso.
Provenance
Clarkson Stanfield, thence by descent.
Literature
Stevenson, ibid., p. 212, no. 39 (illus.); Brettell et al, Paper and Light, pl. 20