[No Discernible Image.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Inscribed on recto in pencil: 'frame lines'. No discernible image apart from frame lines drawn in pencil with chemical staining around edges of paper. This print is particularly light sensitive and should not be viewed under normal light levels.
[No Discernible Image.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:
Inscribed on recto in pencil: 'frame lines'. No discernible image apart from frame lines drawn in pencil with chemical staining around edges of paper. This print is particularly light sensitive and should not be viewed under normal light levels.
[Northumberland House, Trafalgar Square.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Hand coloured view taken from a slightly elevated position, looking across the fountain of Trafalgar Square to Northumberland House and neighbouring shops on either side. Paper size 187 x 224 with watermark of possibly 'JF' and the figure of a stag. This print is particularly light sensitive and...
[Dovecote, Singleton.] Photographer: Jones, Calvert Richard
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Inscribed in pencil on verso: 'M'. Hand coloured view of the side of the dovecote with a man seated on a wheelbarrow in the foreground towards the left. This print is particularly light sensitive and should not be viewed under normal light levels.
[Entrance Lodge Gate, Eaton Hall.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Inscribed in pencil on verso: 'Martin'. Hand coloured, slightly off-centre view of an ivy covered gatehouse with figure posed in the entranceway. Paper size 185 x 225 mm. In the past, this print has been misidentified as being Spye Park and the male figure possibly being W Holland Furlong. This...
[Hand-coloured version of] Colosseum, Rome, 2nd View. Photographer: Jones, Calvert Richard
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Inscribed on recto from negative: '67 Coliseum Rome 2nd view' and in pencil on verso: '67/ 374/ No.9'. Hand coloured view of the amphitheatre with possibly Jones and his wife in the foreground. This print is particularly light sensitive and should not be viewed under normal light levels.
Letter written by Sir John Herschel to Talbot on the 3rd March 1840, with seal intact. Transcript below. Slough March 3. 1840 My dear Sir Many thanks for your beautiful specimens. I took the liberty (not I hope one you will disapprove) to give them to an Italian friend on his way to Florence...
[Bust of Patroclus.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Inscribed in pencil on verso: '6.9.1842'. A calotype negative of the bust of Patroclus, complete with plinth. The camera has been placed at a slightly elevated angle and looks down on the sculpture, which is slightly turned and so is not directly head on, with the head facing right in the negat...
[Dormer Window, Lacock Abbey.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Inscribed in pencil on verso: '6.9.1842'. A calotype negative of a close-up and slightly off-centre view of a dormer window at Lacock with the reflection of a window underneath the ledge of the roof. The negative was originally in wrapping paper marked '9 Sept./ 1842', inside of which has anoth...
[Gabled Roof, Stable Yard, Lacock Abbey.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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A calotype negative of a close-up and head-on view of a gabled roof possibly in the south-easterly corner of the sable yard; there is a lot of chemical staining around the edges of the paper. The negative was originally in wrapping paper marked '9 Sept./ 1842', inside of which has another paper ...