[Savoyard with Hurdy-gurdy.] Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full length studio portrait of a standing boy wearing a brimmed hat and knee-high spats; he holds a hurdy-gurdy across his body. This image has been published as plate 1 in 'The Hurdy Gurdy' by Susann and Samuel Palmer (David & Charles: Newton Abbot, 1980) and is...
Believed to be L to R. Caroline, Horatia, Lady Elizabeth. Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Inscription: Inscribed on verso: 'Believed to be L to R. Caroline, Horatia, Lady Elizabeth.' Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of three women; seated with book (Caroline Mount Edgcumbe), seated with guitar (Horatia Gaisford) and standing in the centre (Amelina Petit). Chemistry float-applie...
[Horatia Gaisford Playing the Harp.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Inscription: Inscribed on verso: 'I. H.W.' [Intensified by Harold White]. Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length profile portrait of Talbot's half sister seated and playing the Erard harp; photograph taken outside, in front of a backdrop. Watermarked 'J Whatman Turkey Mill 1842'. Intensified ...
[Amélina Petit playing a Guitar.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Inscribed in pencil on verso: '19 Oct/ 4[?]'. A calotype negative of a portrait of Amélina Petit, wearing a dark dress and a bonnet and playing a guitar. The number '6' is written in reverse in the top right corner. The date on the negative is indistinct and may read 1843. This negative is part...
[The 'Angel' Harp by the Grand Piano, Lacock Abbey.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Inscribed in pencil on verso: '12 8/ 30'/ 16 Oct 1840'. A calotype negative possibly taken in the South Gallery of Lacock Abbey and showing a close-up of a harp with a music stand to the side and a grand piano behind; a pile of books visible through the strings of the harp. The photograph was t...
