Cemetery
Dean Cemetery
Victorian burial ground of sculpted bronze and stone memorials to Edinburgh's artists, judges, and explorers.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh centers on the bronze bust marking photographer David Octavius Hill's grave, made not by a hired sculptor but by his wife, artist Amelia Robertson Hill, after his death in 1870. It traces Hill's pioneering photographic partnership with chemist Robert Adamson in the 1840s, Amelia's own career sculpting figures for the Scott Monument and beyond, and what it meant for a woman artist in this era to sign her own work.
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