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Collection Area Visual Arts Project / Collection Talbot Collection Subject Forts and Fortifications

1. Talbot Photo 1(188)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 1(188)
Title:
[View from Spencer's Bastion, Valletta, Malta.] Photographer: Jones, Calvert Richard
Scope & Content:
Inscribed in ink, verso, 58 and in pencil: 19. View taken from a high vantage point on the bastion looking towards the town and out to sea, with a church steeple on the skyline. Trimmed negative.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1846
Extent:
1 item

2. Talbot Photo 1(330)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 1(330)
Title:
Epipolae, Syracuse. Photographer: Bridges, George Wilson
Scope & Content:
Inscription: 13 [Title and Bridges' signature on verso]. Genre: Archaeological Photography The Greek fort ruins with four people posing at various distances from the camera. Trimmed negative
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1846
Extent:
1 item

3. Talbot Photo 1(336)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 1(336)
Title:
Labdalum, Syracuse. Photographer: Bridges, George Wilson
Scope & Content:
Inscription: 17 [Title and Bridges' signature inscribed on verso.] Genre: Archaeological Photography View taken from ground level and shows the mound of debris rocks that was once the fort at Labdalum; there are several pieces of stone in the foreground. Image size 170 x 214 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1846
Extent:
1 item

4. Talbot Photo 2(524)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 2(524)
Title:
[Harbour, Valetta, Malta.] Photographer: Jones, Calvert Richard
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View from Valletta bastions to Marsa Muscetto Harbour. A memorial column and windmill are visible in the distance. This is the first print of a series of three that makes up a panorama scene of the harbour, the other two prints, however, are not in the col...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Dec 1845-Mar 1846
Extent:
1 item

5. Talbot Photo 2(525)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 2(525)
Title:
View of the Fortifications, Valetta. Photographer: Jones, Calvert Richard
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Inscribed on recto: '17'. Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View of the bastion walls on the right, with the harbour containing several fishing boats and ships below and to the left, the town is visible on the skyline. Negative sent to Talbot on 13 February, 1846. Chemistry f...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Dec 1845-Feb 1846
Extent:
1 item

6. Talbot Photo 2(540)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 2(540)
Title:
[Capstan on the Marine.] Photographer: Jones, Calvert Richard
Scope & Content:
A small fishing boat at the edge of the harbour with a bollard in the foreground to the right, view possibly taken at Valletta as the bastion seems to be in the distance. Chemistry float-applied on paper 94 x 107 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Dec 1845-Mar 1846
Extent:
1 item

7. Talbot Photo 5(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 5(7)
Title:
Court in the Alhambra, Granada, Spain. Photographer: Clouzard & Soulier
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Inscribed in pencil on verso: '90882'. Genre: Architectural Photography Oblique view along a colonnaded portico of the Alhambra. Rounded right top and bottom corners. One of seven architectural subjects to be included in the 12 November 1858 edition of 'Photographic News'. Photogl...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1858
Extent:
1 item

8. Talbot Photo 5(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 5(8)
Title:
Court in the Alhambra, Granada, Spain. Photographer: Clouzard & Soulier
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Inscribed on recto: 'Cop', in pencil on verso: '90671'. Genre: Architectural Photography Oblique view along a colonnaded portico of the Alhambra. Rounded right top and bottom corners. Photoglyphic engraving on copper plate from original stereograph by Clouzard and Soulier, darker ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
After 1858
Extent:
1 item

9. Talbot Photo 19(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 19(3)
Title:
[Pencil Drawing of] Huy sur la Meuse.
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Written in ink on album page and on top left corner of drawing; 'Huy sur la Meuse'. Pencil sketch drawn from the banks of the River Meuse with the citadel atop the hill at far right and the town at centre.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

10. Talbot Photo 19(18)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 19(18)
Title:
[Pencil Drawing of the] Riviera di Levante.
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Handwritten on album page and at top of drawing; 'Riviera di Levante'. A pencil drawing of a bay along the Italian Riviera showing a boat aground at right with a section of a walled town at left and mountains along the skyline.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item