a painting of two women sitting on a red and gold daybed is shown next to a similar piece of furniture in the Museum's galleries

funeral rites

108 b/w illustrations

and art-historical narrative accompanies the full-color works by artists including Anthony van Dyck

and optics

In Focus: Hill and Adamson Valentine 2024 a painting of two womenAnne M. Lyden Shortly after the dawn of photography, the unlikely partnership between the respected painter David Octavius Hill and the young engineer Robert Adamson produced some of the most important photographs in the history of the medium. Their alliance began when Hill, while working on his large commemorative painting of the people involved in forming the Free Church of Scotland in 1843, began using photography as a tool to document the church