Inscription: Inscribed on verso: 'Paris/ under/ wet cloth'. Genre: Architectural Photography View taken from a first floor window towards a row of shops and apartment buildings on the opposite side of the street, a line of horse-drawn carriages wait by the pavement. In the bottom right corner ...
[View across the Seine.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View taken from an elevated vantage point on the left bank looking down towards the riverside and across the Seine to the Louvre, with Arc de Triomphe on the skyline towards the left. Waxed surface with chemistry floated on paper 177 x 218 mm
[Rotunda Hospital, Dublin.] Photographer: Furlonge (Furlong), W. Holland
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of the façade of the hospital taken from the intersection of Parnell Street and O'Connell Street, showing a horse and cart and two men posed by a lamp-post. Chemistry float-applied on paper 182 x 228 mm. Watermarked 'J Whatman 1846'. Although this photograp...
[Merchants' Exchange Building, Philadelphia.] Photographer: Langenheim and Co, W & F
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Genre: Architectural Photography One of three copies (prints 667-669) of this subject, a view of the circular section of the Greek Revival style building with horse-drawn carriages outside, just visible at right is the First Bank of the United States. Image taken through a round border 164 x 12...
[Merchants' Exchange Building, Philadelphia.] Photographer: Langenheim and Co, W & F
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Genre: Architectural Photography One of three copies (prints 667-669) of this subject, a view of the circular section of the Greek Revival style building with horse-drawn carriages outside, just visible at right is the First Bank of the United States. Image taken through a round border 173 x 12...
[Merchants' Exchange Building, Philadelphia.] Photographer: Langenheim and Co, W & F
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Genre: Architectural Photography One of three copies (prints 667-669) of this subject, a view of the circular section of the Greek Revival style building with horse-drawn carriages outside, just visible at right is the First Bank of the United States. Image taken through a round border 169 x 11...
[Carriage Outside York Minster.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Inscription: Label on verso: 'Patent/ Talbotype Or/ Sun Pictures'. Genre: Portrait Photography A Landau carriage stationed in front of York Minster; a coachmen sits on top at the front, whilst a person, possibly Calvert Jones stands at the rear. Trimmed print laid down on embossed card.
[Milan Cathedral.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Inscription: Inscribed in pencil on verso: '90728'. Genre: Architectural Photography View taken from a high vantage point looking down onto the façade of the cathedral with carriages stationed in the square below. Photoglyphic engraving. Handwritten in pencil in top right corner by Eugene Ostr...
View of the Boulevards at Paris. Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Genre: Architectural Photography Plate 2 of Matilda Gilchrist-Clark's bound copy of 'The Pencil of Nature'. A view taken from one of the upper windows of the Hotel de Douvres looking down on a Parisian street scene. Chemistry float-applied on paper 176 x 215. The text that accompanies the pl...
[Talbot's carriage by the coach house, Lacock.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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A side view of a barouche with its hood partially up, stationed in the courtyard of the coach house at Lacock. Image is somewhat faded. Chemistry float-applied on paper 111 x 184 mm.