Lot 14*
HILL (DAVID OCTAVIUS) Archive of photographs, paintings and printed materials by, and relating to D.O. Hill and his family, 25 December 1861 (collection)
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HILL (DAVID OCTAVIUS)
Archive of photographs, paintings and printed materials by, and relating to D.O. Hill and his family, comprising:
PHOTOGRAPHS
D.O. Hill and Robert Adamson. Portrait of D.O. Hill, photogravure, tipped onto mount, 845 x 145mm.
D.O. Hill and Robert Adamson. Edinburgh Greyfriars' Churchyard [no figures, unrecorded variant not in Sara Stevenson's catalogue of SNP holdings], lightly albumenised print, laid on card, small loss to one corner, one small marginal snick, small stab-mark in sky area, exhibition labels on verso of Museum of Modern Art ("Hill & Adamson. Edinburgh - Cemetery. Circulating Exhibition No. 19...") and Smith College Museum of Art ("Lent for Exhibition. Feb.-Apr. 1950 By Clarence Kennedy"), 280 x 380mm.
D.O. Hill and his sister Mary Watson, standing three-quarter length, by an unknown photographer, albumen print, a few ink spots at one margin, mounted on card (unevenly trimmed at edges) [cf. Alison Gernsheim. Fashion and Reality 1840-1914, 1963, illus. 33], approx. 290 x 245mm.
Two portraits of Charlotte Hill, by unknown photographers, albumen prints, both mounted on card, one 112 x 75mm.; one (unevenly trimmed) 290 x 230mm.; Portrait of ?Anne Hill (David's wife) or ?Mary Watson (David's sister), carte-de-visit albumen print, 88 x 54mm.
ARTWORKS
D.O. Hill. Oil painting of Charlotte Hill seated in a landscape on Calton Hill [the foot of Dugald Stewart Monument in background] with two young females and a girl, on board, inscribed in ink "To our dear Walter [Scott Dagleish, Charlotte's husband] on his 29th birth day [sic]... Calton 25th March", and with printed label of "Alexander Hill [David Octavius's brother], Publisher and Colourman" on verso, 205 x 305mm., c.1863
D.O. Hill. Pen and ink landscape study, signed "D.O. Hill" in pencil lower right, on paper, tipped onto mount, sheet 125 x 200mm.
MANUSCRIPTS
Autograph letter signed ("D.O. Hill") to the Lord Provost, confirming that the Council of the Royal Scottish Academy had agreed unanimously in "recognizing the propriety of commemorating the services of Mr. J.S. Lefevre to the Academy, by requesting that Gentleman to sit for his portrait for conservation in their Gallery...", and asking the Provost if he could find a a moment to discuss the matter further, 1 page with conjugate blank, marked "Private", Calton Hill Steps, 4 Nov. 1854
ARCHIVAL MATERIAL
A child's glove "from the first pair worn by D.O. Hill (made from Parma fabric)"
Documents relating to Charlotte Hill, including: Certificate of Entry of Birth, blue paper, half missing, 15 December, 1862; Parish of South Leith Certificate of Proclamation of Banns... Certificate of Marriage of Hill and her husband Walter Scott Dagleish, single page, blue paper 23-24 December, 1861; idem, another version for St. Cuthbert's Parish, Edinburgh, single page, white paper, 23-24 December 1861; Exact Entry of Marriage, single page, blue paper, 25 December 1861 (collection)
PHOTOGRAPHS
D.O. Hill and Robert Adamson. Portrait of D.O. Hill, photogravure, tipped onto mount, 845 x 145mm.
D.O. Hill and Robert Adamson. Edinburgh Greyfriars' Churchyard [no figures, unrecorded variant not in Sara Stevenson's catalogue of SNP holdings], lightly albumenised print, laid on card, small loss to one corner, one small marginal snick, small stab-mark in sky area, exhibition labels on verso of Museum of Modern Art ("Hill & Adamson. Edinburgh - Cemetery. Circulating Exhibition No. 19...") and Smith College Museum of Art ("Lent for Exhibition. Feb.-Apr. 1950 By Clarence Kennedy"), 280 x 380mm.
D.O. Hill and his sister Mary Watson, standing three-quarter length, by an unknown photographer, albumen print, a few ink spots at one margin, mounted on card (unevenly trimmed at edges) [cf. Alison Gernsheim. Fashion and Reality 1840-1914, 1963, illus. 33], approx. 290 x 245mm.
Two portraits of Charlotte Hill, by unknown photographers, albumen prints, both mounted on card, one 112 x 75mm.; one (unevenly trimmed) 290 x 230mm.; Portrait of ?Anne Hill (David's wife) or ?Mary Watson (David's sister), carte-de-visit albumen print, 88 x 54mm.
ARTWORKS
D.O. Hill. Oil painting of Charlotte Hill seated in a landscape on Calton Hill [the foot of Dugald Stewart Monument in background] with two young females and a girl, on board, inscribed in ink "To our dear Walter [Scott Dagleish, Charlotte's husband] on his 29th birth day [sic]... Calton 25th March", and with printed label of "Alexander Hill [David Octavius's brother], Publisher and Colourman" on verso, 205 x 305mm., c.1863
D.O. Hill. Pen and ink landscape study, signed "D.O. Hill" in pencil lower right, on paper, tipped onto mount, sheet 125 x 200mm.
MANUSCRIPTS
Autograph letter signed ("D.O. Hill") to the Lord Provost, confirming that the Council of the Royal Scottish Academy had agreed unanimously in "recognizing the propriety of commemorating the services of Mr. J.S. Lefevre to the Academy, by requesting that Gentleman to sit for his portrait for conservation in their Gallery...", and asking the Provost if he could find a a moment to discuss the matter further, 1 page with conjugate blank, marked "Private", Calton Hill Steps, 4 Nov. 1854
ARCHIVAL MATERIAL
A child's glove "from the first pair worn by D.O. Hill (made from Parma fabric)"
Documents relating to Charlotte Hill, including: Certificate of Entry of Birth, blue paper, half missing, 15 December, 1862; Parish of South Leith Certificate of Proclamation of Banns... Certificate of Marriage of Hill and her husband Walter Scott Dagleish, single page, blue paper 23-24 December, 1861; idem, another version for St. Cuthbert's Parish, Edinburgh, single page, white paper, 23-24 December 1861; Exact Entry of Marriage, single page, blue paper, 25 December 1861 (collection)
Footnotes
Provenance: Mrs E. Grindall, great grand daughter of D.O. Hill, pencil caption and notes on verso of most of the photos.