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SCOTLAND HILL (DAVID OCTAVIUS) Sketches of Scenery in Perthshire Drawn from Nature and on Stone, FIRST EDITION, Perth, Thomas Hill, [1821] image 1
SCOTLAND HILL (DAVID OCTAVIUS) Sketches of Scenery in Perthshire Drawn from Nature and on Stone, FIRST EDITION, Perth, Thomas Hill, [1821] image 2
SCOTLAND HILL (DAVID OCTAVIUS) Sketches of Scenery in Perthshire Drawn from Nature and on Stone, FIRST EDITION, Perth, Thomas Hill, [1821] image 3
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HILL (DAVID OCTAVIUS) Sketches of Scenery in Perthshire Drawn from Nature and on Stone, FIRST EDITION, Perth, Thomas Hill, [1821]

23 March 2022, 12:00 GMT
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HILL (DAVID OCTAVIUS) Sketches of Scenery in Perthshire Drawn from Nature and on Stone, FIRST EDITION, 30 uncoloured lithographed plates printed by C. Hullmandel after Hill, one original pictorial lithographed upper parts wrapper ("No. 2", "Pr.6/-") pasted inside upper cover, small dampstain in lower margin of 12 plates, slightly larger in lower fore-corner of 2 others, early half morocco, gilt lettered "Perth. D.O. Hill. 1821" on upper cover, upper cover detached, loss to spine [Abbey Scenery 509], oblong folio (288 x 455mm.), Perth, Thomas Hill, [1821]

Footnotes

David Octavius Hill is today most celebrated for his pioneering work in photography alongside Adamson, but he made his name originally as a fine artist, as show these views of Perthshire, executed while he was in his teens. Issued in parts from 1821-23 by David's father, Thomas Hill, Sketches is "generally recognized as the earliest series of views to have been produced in Scotland by the lithographic process" (Directory of the Lithographic Printers of Scotland 1820-1870, p.98).

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