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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Talbot Photo Material Type Photographs

1421. Talbot Photo 6(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 6(5)
Title:
Bust of Patroclus. Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Plate 5 of Matilda Gilchrist-Clark's bound copy of 'The Pencil of Nature'. Head-on view of the sculpture with the bottom slightly cropped; a larger variant included in some issues of 'The Pencil of Nature,' after the original negative was damaged. Paper trimmed ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
8 Sep 1842
Extent:
1 item

1422. Talbot Photo 6(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 6(6)
Title:
The Open Door. Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:
Genre: Still Life Photography Plate 6 of Matilda Gilchrist-Clark's bound copy of 'The Pencil of Nature'. A study of a broomstick resting across a half-closed door. Paper trimmed to size of image. The text that accompanies the plate reads, 'The chief object of the present work is to place on r...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Apr 1844
Extent:
1 item

1423. Talbot Photo 6(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 6(7)
Title:
Leaf of a Plant. Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:
Genre: Still Life Photography Plate 7 of Matilda Gilchrist-Clark's bound copy of 'The Pencil of Nature'. A direct cameraless image of the trifoliate stem of a fern-like plant against a white field. Paper trimmed to size of image. Original negative at Talbot Photo 1 (3). The text that accompani...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Before 14 Feb 1844
Extent:
1 item

1424. Talbot Photo 6(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 6(8)
Title:
A Scene in a Library. Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:
Genre: Still Life Photography Plate 8 of Matilda Gilchrist-Clark's bound copy of 'The Pencil of Nature'. A head-on view of two shelves of books. Paper trimmed to size of image. The text that accompanies the plate reads, 'Among the many novel ideas which the discovery of Photography has sugges...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Before 22 Mar 1844
Extent:
1 item

1425. Talbot Photo 6(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 6(9)
Title:
Fac-simile of an Old Printed Page. Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:
Plate 9 of Matilda Gilchrist-Clark's bound copy of 'The Pencil of Nature'. A reproduction of a printed page titled 'Ricardi Secundi'. Chemistry float-applied on paper 220 x 177. The text that accompanies the plate reads, 'Taken from a black-letter volume in the Author's library, containing the...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Before Aug 1839
Extent:
1 item

1426. Talbot Photo 6(10)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 6(10)
Title:
The Haystack. Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Plate 10 of Matilda Gilchrist-Clark's bound copy of 'The Pencil of Nature'. A view of a haystack with a ladder leaning against it. Paper trimmed to size of image. The text that accompanies the plate reads, 'One advantage of the discovery of the Photographic Art wi...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Apr 1844
Extent:
1 item

1427. Talbot Photo 6(11)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 6(11)
Title:
Copy of a Lithographic Print. Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Plate 11 of Matilda Gilchrist-Clark's bound copy of 'The Pencil of Nature'. A copy of Louis Leopold Boilly's 'Réunion de trente-cinq têtes diverses'. Paper trimmed to size of image. The text that accompanies the plate reads, 'We have here the copy of a Parisia...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Before May 1844
Extent:
1 item

1428. Talbot Photo 6(12)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 6(12)
Title:
The Bridge of Orleans. Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography Plate 12 of Matilda Gilchrist-Clark's bound copy of 'The Pencil of Nature'. A view taken at an oblique angle of the George V Bridge from the bank of the Loire, with the town and Cathedral of Sainte-Croix on the skyline beyond. Chemistry float-applied to pa...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
14 Jun 1843
Extent:
1 item

1429. Talbot Photo 6(13)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 6(13)
Title:
Queen's College, Oxford, Entrance Gateway. Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Plate 13 of Matilda Gilchrist-Clark's bound copy of 'The Pencil of Nature'. A tightly composed view of the entrance to Queen’s College, Oxford, taken from an upper window on the opposite side of the High Street and centred on the cupola containing the statue of ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
9 Apr 1843
Extent:
1 item

1430. Talbot Photo 6(14)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 6(14)
Title:
The Ladder. Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:
Genre: Still Life Photography Plate 14 of Matilda Gilchrist-Clark's bound copy of 'The Pencil of Nature'. Three men grouped around a ladder in the stableyard of Lacock Abbey, the top resting against the first-floor doorway. Two men stand at its base, while a youth is posed in the upper storey o...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Apr 1845
Extent:
1 item

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