Search

040-003305134 Subject Plants

1. Talbot Photo 16(54)

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

2. Talbot Photo 16(37)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 16(37)
Title:
Kenilworth. Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Inscribed in ink as above at bottom right of page. Genre: Architectural Photography A section of the ruins of Kenilworth Castle, covered in ivy. Attributed to Thomas Damant or Samuel Buckle. A faded print, trimmed to image size and laid down on card 303 x 234 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Before 20 May 1848
Extent:
1 item

3. Talbot Photo 16(31)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 16(31)
Title:
Beech Trees, Lacock Abbey. Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Inscribed in ink at bottom right of page: 'Beech Trees, Lacock Abbey'. Genre: Landscape Photography View along a sun-dappled forest pathway lined with beech trees. This image also appears as plate 23 in Nicolaas Henneman's 'Talbotypes or Sun Pictures', published in 1847. Print tri...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c Summer 1842
Extent:
1 item

4. Talbot Photo 16(55)

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

5. Talbot Photo 16(56)

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

6. Talbot Photo 16(26)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 16(26)
Title:
[Old Hall, Balliol College] Oxford. Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Incribed in ink at bottom right of page: 'Oxford' and in pencil on mount: 'The Old Hall, Balliol College?' Genre: Architectural Photography View of an ivy covered façade with crenellated roofline above an arched gateway leading to an inner courtyard. Paper trimmed to size of image...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1841-1846
Extent:
1 item

7. Talbot Photo 16(34)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 16(34)
Title:
[Winter Trees Reflected in Water,] At Lacock Abbey. Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Inscribed in ink at bottom right of page: 'at Lacock Abbey.' Genre: Landscape Photography View of a row of deciduous trees, reflected in a pond at Lacock. Paper trimmed to size of image and laid down on card 241 x 305 mm. Loose copies, titled 'Winter Trees Reflected in Water' can ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1841-1842
Extent:
1 item

8. Talbot Photo 16(21)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 16(21)
Title:
[View from a Window of the Vittoria Hotel] Naples. Photographer: Jones, Calvert Richard
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Inscribed in ink at bottom right of page: 'Naples. Rev. C. Jones 1846.' Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View taken from an elevated vantage point, looking down on the entrance to the Villa Reale, with a row of buildings along the right and surrounding hills in the distance....
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1846
Extent:
1 item

9. Talbot Photo 16(29)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 16(29)
Title:
Place of Embarkation on Loch Katrine. Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Inscribed in ink as above at bottom right of page and credited: 'H.F.T. October 1844.' Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the water's edge of Loch Katrine, towards a rocky hillside rising in the background, and with rowing boats moored at the shore in the middleground...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Oct 1844
Extent:
1 item

10. Talbot Photo 16(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 16(9)
Title:
The Ancient Vestry, Lacock Abbey, 13th Century. Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Inscribed in ink as above at bottom right of mount. Genre: Portrait Photography A view of the ivy-covered cloisters of Lacock Abbey, with Talbot's friend (and fellow photographer) Calvert Jones seated in one of the arches. A considerably faded print. Paper trimmed to size of image...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 9 Sep 1845
Extent:
1 item