Genre: Portrait Photography Carte de visite showing bearded man seated against cloth covered table; he wears opened three-quarter length coat and monocle hangs from neck. Carte size 108 x 64 mm.
Inscription: On verso: stamp of the Prince of Wales' warrant and inscribed 'Mr. Harry J. Emmens, / Photographer,/ 27, Bold Street./ Liverpool./ From the London Stereoscopic Co.'. Genre: Portrait Photography Carte de visite showing man wearing three-quarter length coat, holding umberella and to...
[Mrs Shakespear.] Photographer: Rolfe, Alexander Frederick A T
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Inscription: Inscribed on verso: 'By Rolfe's/ Portrait Studio/ 4 Haymarket/ London'. Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Carte de visite, oval photograph of miniature painting depicting head and shoulders of a woman. Photograph was attached to accompanying letter inventory number 31271 (copy encl...
W.R. Coopers. Photographer: Atwood, William Samuel
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Inscription: Inscribed on verso by hand: 'W.R. Coopers 13/12/75', printed 'Photographer/ W.S. Atwood/ 113, Pentonville Road. N./ No..../ Copies of this portrait may be had/ by sending above number.' Genre: Portrait Photography Carte de visite of full length studio portrait of bearded man with...
Constance Gilchrist-Clark. Photographer: Moffatt, John
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Inscription: Name of photographer and studio address printed under photograph. Handwritten in pencil on verso: 'Constance Gilchrist-Clark, 1874' and Moffat's stamp containing a crown and ribbon, on which is written 'Edinburgh/ 103 & 125/ Princes/ Street' above which is printed 'Established 1...
Bridge Over the River Moldau. Photographer: Clouzard & Soulier
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Inscription: Inscribed in pencil on verso: '90942'. Genre: Architectural Photography There are two other copies (prints 22-23) that show a single view of this subject. Stereoscopic view taken from a high vantage point looking down on Charles Bridge, Prague with the Old Town Bridge Tower at lef...
[Reproductions of Cartography, Photography and a Lithograph.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Inscription: Inscribed in pencil on verso: '90442'. Genre: Urban Topographical Photography Fac-similie of a lithograph of a bearded man, a photograph of a waterfall and the map of Penicuik (later to be used as an example of Photo-sculpsit in appendix of Gaston Tissandier's 'Les Merveilles de l...
[Study of Lace.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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A cameraless contact negative of a large sample of lace, with a swirling floral and leaf design. Negative trimmed to image size. Positive prints from this image can be found at Talbot Photo 2 (289-292). For a discussion of this image, see text by Larry J. Schaaf in, ‘Sun Pictures. Catalogue Sev...
Leaf of a plant. Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Genre: Still Life Photography Impression of the stem of a plant (cow parsley?), printed from a photogenic drawing negative and published in 'The Pencil of Nature' (plate 7).
Leaf of a plant. Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Genre: Still Life Photography Impression of the stem of a plant (cow parsley?), printed from a photogenic drawing negative and published in 'The Pencil of Nature' (plate 7). Paper cropped to image size. A faded print.