"Talbot Collection" - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 1(142)
Title:: [Indistinct image of (?)a botanical specimen, exposed by moonlight.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:: Inscribed in pencil: Moonlight 40' 2 April/41 Cameraless photogenic drawing negative, exposed by moonlight for forty minutes; originally in an envelope labelled moonlight. The negative has been cut into a roughly oval leaf-like shape and was redeveloped (intensified) by Harold White; with a sma...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 2 Apr 1841
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 12(60)
Title:: [Reproduction of an engraving of a man on horseback.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Date inscribed on verso in Talbot's hand. Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of A photogenic drawing contact negative of a print of a young man on horseback, with a dog running alongside; it may possibly be a depiction of Dick Turpin riding Black Bess. Paper watermarked 'J Whatman Turk...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1839
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 12(61)
Title:: [Reproduction of an engraving of a ruin by a riverside.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Date inscribed on verso in Talbot's hand. Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of A photogenic drawing contact negative of an engraving, depicting a ruined building bordering the banks of a river, where a boat is moored. Paper trimmed to size of image.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1839
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 14(9)
Title:: [Cameraless contact photogenic drawing negative of a (?)Mimosoideae.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:: Genre: Scientific Photography A cameraless contact photogenic drawing negative of a plant consisting of bipinnately compound leaves, twelve stems in total. Paper trimmed to size of image.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1839
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 14(10)
Title:: [Cameraless contact photogenic drawing negative of a botanical specimen.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:: Genre: Scientific Photography A cameraless contact photogenic drawing negative of a shoot with three subsidiary branches of bipinnately compound leaves. Paper trimmed to size of image.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1839
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 14(24)
Title:: [Cameraless contact negative photogenic drawing of a botanical specimen.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:: Genre: Still Life Photography A cameraless contact photogenic drawing negative of a plant in flower. The plant has a main stem with numerous branchings, all of which have ovoid leaves. Negative trimmed to size of image. Paper watermarked 'J. Whatman 1839'.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1839
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 1(165)
Title:: [Copy of a Large Italian Print, Reduced in the Camera.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Modern inscription in pencil on verso: 'lower panel'. Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of A reduced copy of Luigi Rossini's 1829 engraving of a Roman arch in Cora (titled 'Veduta dell' antico Ponte situato fuori di Porta Romana nella Città di Cora nei tempi di Claudio'). Two small ho...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 23 Jan 1844
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 1(169)
Title:: [Copy of the Title Page to 'Inclytae Regiae Societati Londinensi'.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:: Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Waxed photogenic drawing showing the reproduction of the title page depicting a landscape with one man pointing to the geology of a cave while the other points to his specimens of leaves and insects. A print likely to have been taken from this negative can be f...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1840s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 1(173)
Title:: [Reproduction of a Print, Christ being lifted by an Angel.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:: Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Waxed photogenic drawing of a print depicting an angel lifting Christ.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Early 1840s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 12(50)
Title:: [Framed oil painting placed in an armchair, Version 1, Lacock.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:: Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of View of a framed portrait of a bearded man, resting on an upholstered armchair. A chemical stain has faded some of the detailing of the canvas. Chemistry float-applied on paper 114 x 180 mm.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1840
Extent:: 1 item

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