[By the Entrance to Singleton Abbey.] Photographer: Jones, Calvert Richard
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Inscription: Stamped on verso: 'Patent/ Talbotype Or/ Sun Pictures'. Genre: Architectural Photography Slightly off-centre view of a man sitting by the lion sculptures at the entrance to Singleton Abbey, partial view of the building behind. Fingerprints visible in the bottom corners. Watermarke...
Regent Street, London. Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Inscription: Inscribed on verso: 'I. HW.' [intensified by Harold White] '1/6 / Regent St, London. / Archbp' ' Tennison's Chapel' [patent stamp also on verso]. Genre: Architectural Photography View taken from an elevated vantage point and diagonally across the road to numbers 170-176 Regent Str...
The Haystack. Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Inscription: Inscribed in pencil on verso: 'Mme Amelina.' Genre: Landscape Photography One of four copies (prints 34-35, 698 and 751) of this subject, showing a haystack with a ladder leaning against it. Watermarked 'J Whatman'. Also published as plate 10 of 'The Pencil of Nature.' Discoloured...
Cloisters of Lacock Abbey. Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Genre: Architectural Photography One of three copies (prints 54-55 and 752) of this subject, taken from inside the cloister yard, it shows a view of the northern section of the ivy-covered cloister wall with a row of Perpendicular traceried arches and the entrance at left. Also published as pl...
The Woodcutters - Nicole and Pullen Sawing and Cleaving. Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Genre: Portrait Photography One of four copies (prints 389, 390, 719 (hand-coloured) and 753) of a posed photograph of Nicolaas Henneman (L) and Samuel Pullen (R) sawing and chopping timber outside a shed. Faded print, laid down on heavy card, with residue of gum around edges, from a removed wi...
[Oxford Towers.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of Christ Church Cathedral taken from the north-east with Tom Tower, Christ Church in the distance. Print laid down on heavy card, with residue of gum around edges from removed window mount. Displayed in 1905 exhibition at Whitechapel Art Gallery, where it ...
[Bodleian Library, Oxford.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Genre: Architectural Photography One of three copies (prints 203, 707 and 755) of this subject, a view taken in the School Quadrangle looking upwards towards the ornate entrance of the Bodleian Library. Faded print, laid down on heavy card, with residue of gum around edges, from removed window ...
[Near Chepstow.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Genre: Landscape Photography View of rocky hillside with property wall at right. Print laid down on heavy card, with residue of gum around edges from removed window mount. Displayed in 1905 exhibition at Whitechapel Art Gallery. For a discussion of this image, see text by Larry J. Schaaf in, ...
[Oak Tree in Winter, Lacock Abbey.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Inscription: Inscribed in pencil on verso: '162'. Genre: Landscape Photography View of a mature leaf-less oak tree with a row of smaller trees in the distance. Chemistry float-applied on paper 225 x 184 mm. The negative to this print can be found at Talbot Photo 1(97). For a discussion of thi...
Inscribed in pencil on verso: 'Nov. 26/39 Bookcase'. No discernible image, though there is some density towards the lower section of the centre of the paper. This print is particularly light sensitive and should not be viewed under normal light levels.
