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Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 16(54)
Title:: [Cameraless contact negative of a fern speciimen.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:: Genre: Scientific Photography A cameraless contact negative showing the frond of a fern. Negative trimmed to image size.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Early 1840s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 16(55)
Title:: [Leaf of a Plant.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:: Genre: Scientific Photography A direct cameraless image of the trifoliate stem of a fern-like plant against a white field. Print trimmed to image size. Four loose copies can be found in Talbot Photo 2 (prints 24-26 and 697). The negative to this print can be found at Talbot Photo 1(3). Also pu...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Before 14 Feb 1844
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 16(56)
Title:: [Cameraless contact negative of the stem of an Apiaceae Plant.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:: Genre: Scientific Photography A cameraless contact negative of a plant of the parsely family with one of the bottom petioles facing downward. Negative trimmed to image size.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1844
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 17(17)
Title:: [The 'Gothick Gateway' at Lacock Abbey.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography A small calotype showing the head-on view of the Gothic Revival arch, taken from near the kitchen area facing the approach to the abbey; the wall on either side of the arch is partially hidden by a tree on the left and shrubs to the right. Talbot positioned the ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1840s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 17(20)
Title:: [Tree with picnic table.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography A small calotype of a wooded area, in the centre there is a large tree with a picnic table nearby.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1840s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 19(13)
Title:: [Pencil Drawing titled] Jardin des Canteleu - Near Rouen.
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Handwritten on the album page; 'Jardin des Canteleu - near Rouen'. A pencil drawing sketched from a hill top between two trees looking down towards the Seine.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 19(36)
Title:: [Pencil Drawing of] Albano.
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Handwritten at top of drawing and on album page; 'Albano'. A pencil drawing sketched from a street that is on a gentle incline, the view looks over a wall towards a row of tall houses and then out to sea; the drawing is framed by two towering trees on either side.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 19(38)
Title:: [Pencil Drawing titled] Fuori la Porta del Popolo.
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Handwritten at bottom of drawing; 'Rome April 1823', and on album page; 'Fuori la Porta del Popolo'. A pencil sketch of a group of tall trees on the left with a solitary figure walking past; the city of Rome is visible in the distance on the right.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Apr 1823
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 19(52)
Title:: [Pencil Drawing of] Salerno.
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Handwritten along top of drawing; 'Salerno May 1817'. Pencil drawing of the Amalfi Coast; sketched from the grounds of a public garden with prominent palm tree in the foreground, the bay to the left, the town of Salerno in the mid-distance and the mountains behind.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: May 1817
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 20(46)
Title:: [A Watercolour of a Meadow, Markeaton.]
Scope & Content:: A monochrome watercolour of various trees possibly in the grounds of the Markeaton Hall estate, with a small footpath in the bottom right corner. A note adhered to the album states that this sketch is part of '18 Sketches of Markworth and Markeaton. Copied by C. T. from the drawings of Mr Bourne...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1832
Extent:: 1 item

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