[Cloister arches, Lacock Abbey.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Genre: Architectural Photography View from outside the east façade showing the cloister arches and the row of windows above. The edging of the print has darkened. Chemistry float-applied on paper 185 x 228 mm.
[Melbury House, Dorset.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Inscription: Inscribed in the negative, '24 Dec 1843.' Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along the façade of the Earl of Ilchester's country house at Melbury Sampford, where Talbot was born and spent part of his childhood. The building front has two sections of varying heights, wit...
[East front, Lacock Abbey.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Genre: Architectural Photography A severely faded print showing the end section of the east façade of Lacock Abbey, with its sloping roof and chimney to the left. Chemistry float-applied on paper 188 x 226 mm.
[Rouen Harbour, View 1.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking across the harbour towards quayside buildings across the water, with brigs moored in the foreground and barrels stacked on the wharf. Chemistry float-applied on paper 177 x 193 mm.
[The new chain suspension bridge at Rouen.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking towards the bridge and across the Seine at Rouen, with the masts of moored ships in the foreground. A somewhat faded image. Chemistry float-applied on paper 165 x 216 mm. For a discussion of this image, see Larry J. Schaaf, 'The Photographic ...
[Portrait of the three Feilding women.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Genre: Portrait Photography A group photograph of four women (the figure on the right largely cropped out of image). Horatia (Henrietta Horatia Maria Gaisford) is seated centre in right profile, looking downwards; her mother Lady Elisabeth Feilding is seated on the right, gazing down on Horatia...
[Portrait group, Lacock.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Genre: Portrait Photography An extremely faded print of a group portrait taken in front of a white backdrop. Two men stand to the left and a third stands on the right, with a woman between them and another seated in front. Chemistry float-applied on paper 183 x 222 mm.
[South front, Lacock Abbey.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Genre: Architectural Photography A faded print of the south façade of Lacock Abbey taken at some distance from across the lawn, with Sharington's Tower on the right. Chemistry float-applied on paper 185 x 226 mm.
[The new coach house, Lacock Abbey.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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An extremely faint print, with Nicolaas Henneman and another figure (?Sir David Brewster) standing in the foreground in conversation. Chemistry float-applied on paper 185 x 226 mm. For a discussion of this image, see text by Larry J. Schaaf in, ‘Sun Pictures. Catalogue Nine' (Hans P. Kraus, Jr....