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.
Inscription: Inscribed in pencil: ' Cowes 1835 C.T'. Pencil and ink sketch drawn by Constance Talbot from a high vantage point looking through fields towards Cowes and the coastline beyond.
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.
Inscription: Handwritten at top of drawing and on album page; 'Albano'. A pencil drawing sketched from a street that is on a gentle incline, the view looks over a wall towards a row of tall houses and then out to sea; the drawing is framed by two towering trees on either side.
Inscription: Handwritten on album page; 'In the Spoletana'. A pencil drawing of a winding mountainous road with farm buildings on either side of a bend, the building on the left is partially hidden by a tree.
Inscription: Handwritten along drawing; 'Castel a Mare June 22 1817'. Pencil drawing of the promenade along the bay with several people looking out to sea; on the opposite bank there is a row of boats with tall masts.
[Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Inscription: c [Handwritten in pencil by Talbot.] Genre: Portrait Photography Studio portrait of the French zoologist seated in a chair and facing the right. Copper plate photoglyphic engraving. Image size 80 x 45 mm, press imprint size 84 x 50 mm, paper size 141 x 112 mm.
