| Abstract: | Abstract Over the past 100 years the motive behind the D. O. Hill and Robert Adamson partnership in photography has frequently been discussed, but has escaped systematic investigation. For this reason, the existence of a large body of thei1 work could not be explained. In this study, the question of partnership motive is examined from the perspective of three known documents: the article, ‘The Two Prints’, composed by Hugh Miller, editor of The Witness, and published on 24 June 1843;1 the letter written nine days later by Sir David Brewster to Fox Talbot, on 3 July 1843;2 and a second article, ‘The Calotype’, completed by Miller at about the time Brewster wrote the letter and printed ten days later, on 12 July 1843.3 From these documents it will be shown that on the eve of partnership the two men were planning to create various kinds of historic imagery for graphic arts application. |
