[David Octavius Hill, his nieces the Misses Watson, and an unknown man at the Dennistoun Monument in Greyfriars Churchyard]

[David Octavius Hill, his nieces the Misses Watson, and an unknown man at the Dennistoun Monument in Greyfriars Churchyard]

Photograph

Hill & Adamson

Maker
David Octavius Hill, British, 1802–1870; Robert Adamson, British, 1821–1848

[David Octavius Hill, his nieces the Misses Watson, and an unknown man at the Dennistoun Monument in Greyfriars Churchyard]

The Grave-digger and His Friends


1843–1847
Carbon print, printed ca. 1914 by Alvin Langdon Coburn
Image: 8 3/16 × 6 3/16 in. (20.8 × 15.7 cm)
Mount (primary): 9 1/16 × 6 11/16 in. (23 × 17 cm)
Mount (secondary): 13 5/16 × 9 13/16 in. (33.8 × 24.9 cm)
Bequest of Alvin Langdon Coburn
1967.0084.0043
Inscriptions Stamped in red ink on verso of secondary mount, BLC: 4

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