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Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 12(34)
Title:: [Slice of a horse chestnut, seen through a solar microscope.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Inscribed in a modern hand on album page, '28 May 1840.' Genre: Scientific Photography A faded print showing a section of a horse chestnut, taken through a solar microscope and producing an effect of concentric circles. Paper watermarked 'J Whatman/ 1838'. Chemistry float-applied ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 28 May 1840
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 13(28)
Title:: [The River Thames, London, from Talbot's Cecil Street flat.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:: Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View taken from a window of Talbot's flat in Cecil Street, looking along the north bank of the Thames, with boats moored in the foreground. On the skyline right of centre Westminster Abbey can be very faintly discerned. This is the earliest photograph on p...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: June 1841
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 14(17)
Title:: [?Interior view by a window, probably at Lacock Abbey.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography An almost indiscernible image, though it may possibly have been taken from a high vantage point looking down onto a windowseat at Lacock Abbey. Chemistry float-applied on paper 113 x 186 mm.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1840
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 15(26)
Title:: [Interior of the Great Hall, Lacock Abbey.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:: A very indistinct and faded image of the interior of the Great Hall, facing north. Chemistry float-applied on paper 115 x 183 mm.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Early 1840s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 16(52)
Title:: [Cameraless contact negative of a specimen of an Umbelliferous Plant] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:: Genre: Scientific Photography A cameraless contact negative showing the stem of a plant with numerous linear leaves. Negative trimmed to image size.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1843-1846
Extent:: 1 item

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 1(9)
Title:: The Martyrs' Monument, Oxford with Caesar's Lodge behind. Photographer: William Henry Fox Talbot.
Scope & Content:: Inscribed in pencil, bottom left of sensitised side: N 1. Portions of sky area blacked out with crayon. The numbering on the back may refer to the photograph having been taken by Nicolaas Henneman. Trimmed negative.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1843
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 1(157)
Title:: [Copy of the Title Page 'Perillustri Societati Regiae'.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:: Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Waxed photogenic contact negative of the title page; it depicts a landscape scene with the title at the centre.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Early 1840s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 1(162)
Title:: [Copy of a Gothic Interior with Two Figures.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Inscribed on verso: '23 July and '4'. Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Photogenic drawing of a watercolour depicting the interior of a vaulted room with two figures. Much of the image is lost, the date for this photograph has come from notebook P and is assumed to be part of the 1...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 23 Jul 1839
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 1(182)
Title:: [Church of Santa Caterine d'Italia, Strada Mercanti, Malta.] Photographer: Jones, Calvert Richard
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Inscribed in ink: '53' and in pencil: '10'. An off-centre and oblique view of the façade of the church with its portico in the shade. Trimmed negative.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1846
Extent:: 1 item

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