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1. Talbot Photo 2(747)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 2(747)
Title:
[Indistinct Image.]
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Label on verso: 'Patent/ Talbotype Or/ Sun Pictures'. Genre: Landscape Photography An indistinct image, possibly of a landscape. Varnished, trimmed and slightly discoloured print laid down on card.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1840s
Extent:
1 item

2. Talbot Photo 2(664)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 2(664)
Title:
[Four Sisters.]
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of four young women in identical dresses sitting and kneeling in two rows on a lawn. A single book placed on the front two's laps, while the girls in the back row look down at it. Print trimmed to size of image. Found at Lacock Abbey in a sleeve marked 'Salt...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1853
Extent:
1 item

3. Talbot Photo 2(666)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 2(666)
Title:
[Woman and Boy.]
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of a seated woman with her arm around the waist of a standing boy. Trimmed print and fading reveals the retouched areas in black ink. Found at Lacock Abbey in a sleeve marked 'Salted prints of early collodion/ portraits by W. (Cozan struck out) Logan. 1853'.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1853
Extent:
1 item

4. Talbot Photo 2(381)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 2(381)
Title:
[Portrait of Two Women.]
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Two women, pressumably sisters; one seated on a chair while the other kneels at her side. Chemistry float-applied on paper 237 x 200 mm. Chemical stains over the image.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1840s
Extent:
1 item

5. Talbot Photo 2(643)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 2(643)
Title:
[Oak Trees in a Meadow.] Photographer: Story-Maskeyne, Nevil
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography One of two copies (prints 643 and 644) of this subject, a view of a fenced meadow with several large oak trees. Chemistry float-applied on paper 141 x 200 mm. Oil stain in top left corner.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c mid 1850s
Extent:
1 item

6. Talbot Photo 2(644)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 2(644)
Title:
[[Oak Trees in a Meadow.] Photographer: Story-Maskeyne, Nevil
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography One of two copies (prints 643 and 644) of this subject, a view of a fenced meadow with several large oak trees. Paper trimmed to size of image.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c mid 1850s
Extent:
1 item

7. Talbot Photo 2(234)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 2(234)
Title:
Forbury Hill, Reading. Photographer: Henneman, Nicolaas
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Inscribed on verso: 'Patent/ Talbotype/ Or/ Sun Pictures', '231' and 'Forbury Hill/ Reading'. Genre: Architectural Photography A winter scene of three bare trees with the belltower of St James' Church just visible in the distance. Paper trimmed to image and mounted with patent sta...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1844
Extent:
1 item

8. Talbot Photo 2(340)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 2(340)
Title:
[Shakespeare's Birthplace.]
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View of the front of a half-timbered house, with a wooden sign announcing it to be Shakespeare's birthplace. Three children are seated on the front doorstep. Accoriding to a source in the Smithsonian Institute, the photographer was a Mr Stanton of Warwick. Chemi...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1858
Extent:
1 item

9. Talbot Photo 2(233)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 2(233)
Title:
[Forbury Hill, Reading.] Photographer: Henneman, Nicolaas
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography A winter scene showing three bare treesoutlined against the sky, with the belltower of St James' Church just visible in the distance. Chemistry float-applied on paper 88 x 111 mm. A somewhat faded print. The location is identified in the second copy of this prin...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1844
Extent:
1 item

10. Talbot Photo 2(466)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 2(466)
Title:
[Man with Charles Sherwood Stratton (?)]
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Inscribed on verso: 'I. HW./ Harold White' [Image intensified by Harold White]. Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of a man sitting next to a table, which has an exceptionally small man standing on it. It is possibly the entertainer Charles Stratton (General Tom Thumb), if so, i...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1840s
Extent:
1 item