[Charles Porter.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Inscription: Inscribed on recto: '4 Portraits & Groups' . Label on verso: 'Patent/ Talbotype Or/ Sun Pictures'. Genre: Portrait Photography Three quarter length portrait of Charles Porter seated and facing right. Varnished and trimmed print laid down on card. The negative to this print can...
[Charles Porter.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Inscription: Labels on verso: 'Patent/Talbotype or/ Sun Pictures', 'Brooks Brothers/ Wholesale and Retail Stationers/ Booksellers & Publishers/ Printsellers & Frame Manufacturers/ 87, New Bond Street and 307, Oxford Street'. Genre: Portrait Photography Three quarter length portrait of ...
[Nicolaas Henneman Reading.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Inscription: Inscribed on print: 'July 1842'. Label on verso: 'Patent/ Talbotype Or/ Sun Pictures'. Genre: Portrait Photography Three quarter length and sideways portrait of Nicolaas Henneman seated by the cloisters at Lacock, reading. Varnished and trimmed print laid down on card.
[Henneman and Porter.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Inscription: Label on verso: 'Patent/ Talbotype Photogenic Drawings' . Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of a seated Charles Porter with Nicolaas Henneman standing to the right with his hand resting on the back of the chair. Trimmed print laid down on card, image somewhat faded.
[Nettlecombe Church and part of House.] Photographer: Jones, Calvert Richard
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Inscription: Stamped on verso: 'Patent/ Talbotype Or/ Sun Pictures'. Genre: Architectural Photography View of Nettlecombe Church with two men in the churchyard, one posed next to the church wall while the other is seated; behind the hedge to the right the top of the gabled front of Nettlecombe...
[Exceptionally Tall Potted Plant.] Photographer: Llewellyn, John Dillwyn
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Genre: Portrait Photography One of two copies (prints 745 and 746) of this subject, a view of a man standing next to and admiring an extremely tall potted plant that is in front of a greenhouse. Photograph attributed to John Dillwyn Llewellyn. Waxed and trimmed print laid down on card.
[Exceptionally Tall Potted Plant.] Photographer: Llewellyn, John Dillwyn
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Genre: Portrait Photography One of two copies (prints 745 and 746) of this subject, a view of a man standing next to and admiring an extremely tall potted plant that is in front of a greenhouse. Photograph attributed to John Dillwyn Llewellyn. Waxed and trimmed print laid down on card.
[By the Entrance to Singleton Abbey.] Photographer: Jones, Calvert Richard
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Inscription: Stamped on verso: 'Patent/ Talbotype Or/ Sun Pictures'. Genre: Architectural Photography Slightly off-centre view of a man sitting by the lion sculptures at the entrance to Singleton Abbey, partial view of the building behind. Fingerprints visible in the bottom corners. Watermarke...
The Woodcutters - Nicole and Pullen Sawing and Cleaving. Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Genre: Portrait Photography One of four copies (prints 389, 390, 719 (hand-coloured) and 753) of a posed photograph of Nicolaas Henneman (L) and Samuel Pullen (R) sawing and chopping timber outside a shed. Faded print, laid down on heavy card, with residue of gum around edges, from a removed wi...
[Portrait, possibly Professor Lepsius.] Photographer: Henneman, Nicolaas
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Calotype negative of a half length portrait of a man in three quarter profile, he wears spectacles, an opened jacket, shirt with stiff collar and dark neck tie. The negative was originally wrapped in paper inscribed by Talbot, 'Recd. back from Reading 3 Apr 1844’. This negative is particularly l...