[Landscape with rice fields, cocoanut plantations and mountains, Java.] Photographer: Woodbury and Page
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Inscription: Numbered '11' in pencil on mount. Genre: Landscape Photography View looking mountains, with ricefields and cocoanut plantations on the open flat land in the foregound. Precise location unidentified.
Interior, Chinese church, Sumatra. Photographer: Woodbury and Page
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Genre: Architectural Photography Interior view looking towards the altar, of the kelenteng or Chinese temple, known by the name of See Him Kiong, at Padang, Sumatra. Identification of location from Steven Wachlin, 'Woodbury and Page: Photographers Java' (KITLV Press, Leiden, 1994), where this p...
Articles of china. Photographer: William Henry Fox Talbot
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View of four shelves of porcelain; this is the original trimmed negative (waxed), used as plate 3 of The Pencil of Nature. Prints taken from this negative can also be found at Talbot Photo 2(8-10) and Talbot Photo 6(3).
Bust of Patroclus. Photographer: William Henry Fox Talbot
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Cropped view of the sculpture. This is the original trimmed negative (waxed), used as a replacement version for plate 5 in later issues of The Pencil of Nature. Prints made from this negative can be found at Talbot Photo 2(16-19, 696), Talbot Photo 6(5), Talbot Photo 16(10).
Leaf of a plant. Photographer: William Henry Fox Talbot.
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Photogenic drawing contact negative of a trifoliate stem of a fern-like plant; this is possibly the original trimmed negative that was used for plate 7 of The Pencil of Nature. With portions missing from all four corners, presumably from having been removed from an album page. Prints from this n...
Cloisters of Lacock Abbey. Photographer: William Henry Fox Talbot
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Inscribed K in ink at top left corner of sensitised side. View taken from inside the cloister yard, showing the northern section of the ivy-covered wall, with a row of perpendicular traceried arches; this is possibly the original trimmed negative that was used for plate 16 of The Pencil of Natu...
Sharington's Tower, Lacock Abbey. Photographer: William Henry Fox Talbot
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View from the south, looking across the lawn towards Sharington's tower, with two ladders leaning against the east wall. This is the original trimmed negative used for plate 19 of ThePencil of Nature. Prints from this negative can be found at Talbot Photo 2(61) and Talbot Photo 6(19).
