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Robert Adamson|David Octavius Hill|Hill and Adamson

The Artist and the Grave Digger

1843–1844
Salted paper print from paper negative
37.8 × 26.7 cm (14.9 × 10.5 in)

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In the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · as of July 2026

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