Dumbarton Presbytery
Dumbarton Presbytery

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Dumbarton Presbytery,

March 29, 1845

Hill and Adamson, Scottish photography studio, 1843–1848
x1982-300

Following the establishment of the Free Church of Scotland after a contentious schism, the painter David Octavius Hill was commissioned to produce an ambitious large-scale commemorative painting. Determined to paint accurate portraits of the important men and women involved with the church, Hill partnered with the photographer Robert Adamson, who practiced the new paper-based photographic process announced by William Henry Fox Talbot in 1839. The numerous individual and group portraits Hill and Adamson created served as references for Hill’s monumental painting (now in the collection of the University of Glasgow), which took him twenty-three years to complete.

Information

Title
Dumbarton Presbytery
Dates

March 29, 1845

Maker
Hill and Adamson
Medium

Salted paper print

Dimensions

14.5 x 20.2 cm. (5 11/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
mount: 36.1 x 27.5 cm. (14 3/16 x 10 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Robert O. Dougan Collection, gift of Warner Communications, Inc.

Object Number
x1982-300
Culture
British
Type
salted paper prints, black-and-white photographs, photographs
Subject
pastors, figures (representations), table (support furniture), book, men, portraits

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