Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

The Scott Monument, with the Scottish National Gallery and Edinburgh Castle in the background NPG P6(255)

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by David Octavius Hill, and Robert Adamson

David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson were among the first in the world to grasp the artistic possibilities of photography. They were brought together at the Disruption of the Church of Scotland in 1843, a significant event that laid the foundations for the Free Church of Scotland. Adamson photographed the participants as studies for a proposed painting by Hill, but the two men quickly realised the potential of the new medium as an end in itself and not just as a means to an... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.