[One of the Feilding Women holding a Parasol.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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A calotype negative of a portrait of a woman wearing a bonnet, plaid dress holding a parasol. As the negative has faded, it is difficult to identify the sitter but it is presumably one of Talbot's family members. This negative is particularly light sensitive and should not be viewed under normal...
[Dormer Window, Stable Yard, Lacock Abbey.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Inscribed in pencil on verso: '6 9 1842'. A calotype negative of a tightly composed view looking up at the roof of the stable yard block with a dormer window at centre. The negative was in wrapping paper marked '9 Sept. / 1842, which also included information about the development process 'c.a ...
[South Front, Lacock Abbey.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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An extremely faint calotype negative depicting the south façade of Lacock Abbey with Sharington's Tower. This negative may have produced print Talbot Photo 12 (2) and is particularly light sensitive and should not be viewed under normal light levels.
Bust of Patroclus. Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Inscribed on verso in ink: 'LA17/ LA968 [struck through] / I.H.W'. An intensified print of the sculpture in full profile facing left, with the lower part of the chest and plinth having been cropped. This print is particularly light sensitive and should not be viewed under normal light levels. ...
[Portrait of the Three Feilding Women.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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A group photograph of four women, one having been cropped out, leaving Horatia seated in profile in the centre and turned towards her mother Lady Elisabeth, with Caroline standing behind and to the left. Another copy of this image can be found at Talbot Photo 13 (58). Chemistry float-applied on ...
A Scene in a Library. Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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A hand-coloured print of plate 8 of The Pencil of Nature showing two rows of books, a few coloured using red, green and blue paint. The photograph was chemically float-applied on paper 190 x 230 mm. This print is particularly light sensitive and should not be viewed under normal light levels.
[Buckler Fern.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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A photogenic drawing contact negative of the frond of a Buckler fern. This negative is particularly light sensitive and should not be viewed under normal light levels.
Inscribed in pencil on verso: '7 April 1840'. A very faint photogenic camera negative of a stationary carriage in the stable yard at Lacock, almost all details have been lost apart from a section of a dormer window at the extreme right of the negative. This negative is particularly light sensit...
[Bowood House.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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A calotype negative of a view taken at an elevated vantage point looking down on the neoclassical Adam entrance of Bowood House; the camera was probably positioned on the roof of the 'Big House'. Prints taken from this negative can be found at Talbot Photo 10 (43 and 44). This negative is partic...
[Constance Talbot.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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One of the earliest portraits using the calotype process and depicts the head and shoulders of Talbot's wife facing three quarters to the left, she wears a lace pelerine and a dark beaded necklace. The photograph was taken at 5 in the afternoon and without sun. This print is particularly light s...
