The Fruit Sellers. Photographer: Jones, Calvert Richard
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Inscription: Inscribed on verso: 'The Fruitsellers' 'Photograph taken by Fox Talbot in the Cloisters at Lacock Abbey. An interesting group of figures with the costumes of the early forties.' [typewritten] One of two copies (prints 324 and 714) of this subject, four men and two women posing with...
[Plants and a Basket.] Photographer: Llewellyn, John Dillwyn
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Genre: Still Life Photography Close-up view of a garden bed with a basket containing flowers placed on the grass verge. Likely to have been photographed by John Dillwyn Llewelyn. Trimmed print laid down on card.
Silver Shield and Tankards. Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Inscription: Inscribed in pencil on verso: '90337'. Genre: Still Life Photography Selection of tankards, urns and a shield displayed by a draped curtain, also known as 'Group of Antique Plate'. Photoglyphic engraving on steel plate originally taken from a stereograph by Sir Charles Eastlake, r...
A Fruit Piece. Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Genre: Still Life Photography Plate 24 of Matilda Gilchrist-Clark's bound copy of 'The Pencil of Nature'. A still life of two baskets (one of wicker, the other porcelain), containing fruit (apples and a pineapple), set on a tartan tablecloth. Paper trimmed to size of image. The text that acco...
[Maltese vase and statuette of boy reading.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Inscription: Date inscribed in the negative: '29 April 1840'. Genre: Still Life Photography Study of two pieces of china against a dark background; to the right a sculpture of a seated cherub reading and to the left a wine vase decorated with grape motif and snake handle. Chemistry float-appli...
[Urn, Lacock Abbey.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Inscription: Inscribed in the negative: 'May 22 1840.' Genre: Still Life Photography A head-on view of a calyx-krater shaped urn on a plinth, the body of the urn decorated with Medusa's face. Another copy of this print can be found at Talbot Photo 15 (28). Chemistry float-applied on paper 183 ...
[Garden urn.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of A side view of a large calyx-krater shaped urn with bas-relief detailing around its body, lit from the right. Chemistry float-applied on paper 171 x 228 mm.
[Garden urn., Lacock Abbey.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of A slightly angled view of a large calyx-krater shaped urn with bas-relief detailing around its body, lit from the right. Chemistry float-applied on paper 187 x 227 mm.
[Urn from Lady Elisabeth's Rose Garden, Lacock Abbey.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Genre: Landscape Photography View in the grounds at Lacock with a close view of an urn on a plinth with a trellis arch at right. Chemistry float-applied on paper 174 x 223 mm.
['Trunk of Larch' supporting a basket, Lacock Abbey.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Genre: Still Life Photography A tightly composed view of the base of a tree trunk with a basket propped against it to the left. Chemistry float-applied on paper 188 x 227 mm. For a discussion of this image, see Larry J. Schaaf, 'The Photographic Art of William Henry Fox Talbot' (Princeton Univ...
