Talbot Collection: Silver intensification test by Harold White on a faded salted paper print. Photographer: William Henry Fox Talbot
Scope & Content:
Mounted salted paper print of Talbot's photograph Articles of china (plate 3 of The Pencil of Nature). The original print, dating from c 1844, has been cut in half diagonally, the upper left side showing the results of silver intensification treatment, the lower right side showing the original f...
The Talbot Collection: The Pencil of Nature, Part 3. Photographer(s): Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:
The third installment of 'The Pencil of Nature', containing plates 13 - 15; 'Queen's College, Oxford, Entrance Gateway', 'The Ladder' and 'Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire'. The images are severely faded.
The Talbot Collection: The Pencil of Nature, Part 3. Photographer(s): Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:
The third installment of 'The Pencil of Nature', containing plates 13 - 15; 'Queen's College, Oxford, Entrance Gateway', 'The Ladder' and 'Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire'. The images are severely faded.
Talbot Collection: Photographs of Cuneiform Tablets at the British Museum taken by Roger Fenton. Photographer(s): Fenton, Roger (attrib.)
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Collection of 305 salted paper and albumen prints,the remains of a complete set (K. 50-278) of photographs of Assyrian cuneiform tablets (both front and back), with notes in pencil, often extensive, written by William Henry Fox Talbot on both recto and verso of the prints. The photographs have b...
Talbot Collection: Negatives. Photographer: William Henry Fox Talbot, Nicolaas Henneman, Calvert Richard Jones, George Wilson Bridges and others
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Collection of 359 loose negatives and include some of the originals used to produce many of the prints published in The Pencil of Nature and Sun Pictures in Scotland. There is also a large selection of architectural views taken by Talbot of university colleges, particularly in Oxford and also th...