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[Greyfriars' Churchyard, the Dennistoun Monument with D. O. Hill and His Nieces]

Date

1843–1847

Medium

Salted paper print from a paper negative

Culture

Scottish

Department

Photographs

Institution

Getty Museum

> This image focuses on the Dennistoun Monument, the grave of Sir Robert Dennistoun located in Greyfriars Churchyard. David Octavius Hill (1802-70) served as both one of the photographers and a subject for this image. He is shown with his nieces, the Misses Watson. This photograph appeared on the title page of a series of large presentation albums the artist prepared with his collaborator Robert Adamson (1821-48). These albums, containing approximately one hundred photographs apiece, were given away to various friends and colleagues. There are believed to be at least ten still in existence. (See [84.XO.964.21](https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/99153/hill-adamson-greyfriars-churchyard-1843-1847/) and [84.XO.734.4.4.47](https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/99426/hill-adamson-greyfriars-churchyard-the-castle-1843-1847/) for other views of Edinburgh and 84.XO.734.4.3.41 for another portrait of Hill.) > > Adapted from Anne M. Lyden. *Hill and Adamson*, In Focus: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1999), 36. ©1999, J. Paul Getty Museum. For more information about the places Hill and Adamson photographed see [""Hill and Adamson: Place"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl_MF40BGDk).

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