Talbot Collection: Photographs of Cuneiform Tablets at the British Museum taken by Roger Fenton. Photographer(s): Fenton, Roger (attrib.)
Scope & Content:
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: 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...