Inscription: Inscribed on recto: 'W.H.F. Talbot's Patent No. 1046'. Handwritten on verso: 'Talbot's Duplicate'. Four hand-coloured diagrams depicting the machinery to Talbot's patent for obtaining motive power.
Genre: Architectural Photography View of square with the Hôtel de Ville and neighbouring theatre, 'Pl.III' printed in top right corner, so presumably originally intended for a book illustration. Photoglyphic engraving from original negative possibly by Claude Marie Ferrier. Imprint size 189 x 2...
Sepia wash lithograph of the façade of the church at a slightly oblique angle. Eugene Ostroff (Curator of photography at The National Museum of American History and who visited Lacock Abbey in 1965) has written in the top right corner: 'see 641, 604, 584, 659, 610' with encircled 'EO'.
Plan of the Proposed Canal, from the River Kennet at Newbury to the River Avon at Bath, with the Branches to Marlsborough, Calne and Chippenham.
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Inscription: Inscribed on verso, probably by Ostroff: '34935'. Genre: Urban Topographical Photography Map with handwritten title and inscription below reading: 'Length of canal 57 miles 6 furlongs from Newbury to Bath - Head level from Crofton to Devizes 19 miles 2 furlongs./ The Marlbor's Bra...