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Add MS 88942/3/2/1
- Record Id:
- 040-002356168
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002188938
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000827.0x000251
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88942/3/2/1
- Title:
- Talbot: Publications concerning photography
- Scope & Content:
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Leaflet, ‘Avis Aux Amateurs des Beaux-Arts sur La Nouvelle Chambre Obscure inventée Par Vincent Chevalier aîné.' [c 1823]. French language publication. National Trust Accession: 35009.
Leaflet, ‘A Brief Description of the Photogenic Drawings exhibited at the meeting of the British Association, at Brimingham, in August 1839, by H. F. Talbot, Esq.’ (1839). NTA: 36162.
Single page of a publication, ‘Philosophical Apparatus etc.’ [c 1839]. 'Photogenic Drawings. H. Fox Talbot.’ is mentioned in the text. NTA: 37207.
‘Celebrte Unzeigen’ (1839). Pages 18-24. German language publication. Article about Talbot and photography. NTA: 36265.
'The Inventors’ Advocate, and Journal of Industry; A Weekly British and Foreign Miscellany of Science, Inventions, Manufactures, & Arts.' No. 107, pages 97-112. (14 August, 1841). Talbot’s patent for the Calotype process is explained on page 99. NTA: 27987.
Award, (26 April, 1842). From ‘L’Academie Royale des Sciences de Berlin’ to ‘Monsieur H. Fox Talbot: London’ for the invention of the Calotype. French language document. NTA: 28103.
Leaflet ‘Improved Daguerreotype Portraits, taken at No. 6, Union Street, Corner of Argyle Street.’ (1842). Reverse side includes stamp, seal, postmark and Talbot’s address. NTA: 28150.
Leaflet, a 'Prospectus' of the 'London Journal of Arts, Sciences, and Patent Inventions.' (January 1844). The first section of ‘Recent Patents’ lists ‘W. H. F. Talbot’s improvements in photography’ which has been underlined. The back page has a stamp, seal, postmark and Talbot’s address. NTA: 28897.
Leaflet, advertising the publishing of ‘Part I. of The Pencil of Nature.’ (June, 1844). NTA: 23580.
Leaflet, ‘Sun Pictures, or The Talbot Type.' [c 1845]. 'Dec 15' handwritten on the top left hand corner. NTA: 28339.
Blank Licence for the use of 'the Calotype or Talbotype Photographic process' by an amateur photographer, [c 1845]. NTA: 28876.
Single page of a publication, ‘The Photographic News Almanack.’ (undated but post-1858). Pages 49-50. Page 49, 'Views for Photographers.' is crossed through. Page 50 is entitled ‘Chronology of Photography.’ NTA: 28589.
Leaflet and reproduction, (1860). ‘Ordnance Survey of England’. The original, NTA: 28621, has ‘from type’ handwritten in ink on the first page. The reproduction, NTA: 28622, has 'Photo-zinograph' handwritten in pencil on the front. NTA: 28621, 28622.
Pages 47-50 of an unnamed publication. (undated but post-1915). The article, ‘In the Museum on the Second Floor.’ pp. 48-49, concerns an exhibition of Talbot’s photographic ‘apparatus, &c’. NTA: 34139.
Leaflet advertising 'A Second and Revised Edition of a History and Handbook of Photography, Translated from the French of Gaston Tissandier.' [c 1878]. NTA: 26252.
Two pages of printed text and photographic reproductions, one single-sided, one double-sided. [c 1890]. The single-sided page is of printed text describing the conservation and printing of a photographic negative originally taken by Sir John Herschel. The double-sided page has a [photographic] print of ‘The Forty-Foot Telescope at Slough, Photographed by Sir John F. W. Herschel' including a descriptive text of the making of the image on one side and identical text to the printed single page on the other. NTA: 24411.
Book frontpiece, ‘This Work on the Results of the Great Exhibition of 1851, Illustrated with Photographic Plates, being One of Fifteen Copies Given by the Royal Commissioners to H. F. Talbot, Esq. of Lacock Abbey, as The Inventor of this Branch of the Photographic Art, was by him presented to ...’ (17 June, 1854). Printer’s proof from 'Cox (Bros.) & Wyman, 74, 75, Gt. Queen Street.' 2nd proof. NTA: 37580.
Inventory of ‘Calotypes’ and ‘Photoglyphic engravings’ lent by ‘Miss M. T. Talbot’ to 'The Museum of Modern Art’, (29 December, 1937). NTA: 36224.
Booklet, ‘Exhibition of Photography, 15 March to 8 April, 1947. Catalogue for an exhibiton with 'Examples of the work of William Henry Fox Talbot, F.R.S.' NTA: 35772.
'Programme, W. H. F. Talbot Commemoration, 9th June, 1951' (1951) Programme from the 'Reading Camera Club' for the 'Festival of Britain, 1951'. Contains a brief biography of Talbot with emphasis on the Reading photographic establishment at 55 Baker Street. NTA: 30727.
‘Société Française de Photographie.’ (undated). Part of a posted item. Addressed to ‘W. H. Fox Talbot (inventeur de la photographie)'. NTA: 35242.
Single page, ‘The Very Emblem of Photography.’ (undated). Text and illustration of the hieroglyphic from ‘the walls of a tomb at Tel-el-Amarna’ NTA: 32943.
Clipping of article on Daguerre’s photographic process, colour in photographs, and the fixing and developing of images, in particular, experiments by Talbot. (undated). NTA: 37206.
Leaflet, ‘The Photographic Institution, 8, Broad Street, Bath.’ (undated). Advertisment for the photographic business of J. Foot. NTA: 31920.
‘Supplemento al No. 6. anno 2. del Ricoglitore di Cognizioni Utili.' (undated but post-1839). Italian language publication. The section 'Arti (*)' is on 'Disegni fotogenici di Fox-Talbot.' NTA: 33601.
Leaflet, ‘Photography in Printing Ink.’ (1865). Article on the photographer John Pouncy and his photographic process. NTA: 37417.
Leaflet, ‘The French Exhibition – Mr Pouncy’s Process’, (1867). Article on the photographer John Pouncy. NTA: 37384.
Leaflet, ‘Sun Printing in Oil Colours.’ (undated). Article on John Pouncy who had developed a means of photographic reproduction ‘carbon printing’ which enabled a permanent photographic image which did not fade. NTA: 37422.
Leaflet ‘Instructions to use Pouncy’s Sensitized Ink Paper.' (undated). NTA: 37383.
Leaflet, ‘Maiden Castle-A Remarkable Picture. [c 1914]. Article on a photograph taken by 'Mr. Walter Pouncy, the doyen of Dorchester photographers and the well-known landscape artist.' NTA. 30528.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002188938
036-002355783
037-002356167
040-002356168 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88942 : The Papers of William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877)
Add MS 88942/3 : William Henry Fox Talbot: Printed material
Add MS 88942/3/2 : Talbot: Publications owned by W. H. F. Talbot and the Talbot family
Add MS 88942/3/2/1 : Talbot: Publications concerning photography - Hierarchy:
- 032-002188938[0003]/036-002355783[0002]/037-002356167[0001]/040-002356168
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88942
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1839
- End Date:
- 1947
- Date Range:
- 1839-1947
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Legal Status:
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- Names:
- Chevalier, Vincent Jacques Louis, optician, 1770-1841
Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé, photographer, 1787-1851
Herschel, John Frederick William, 1st Baronet, mathematician and astronomer, 1792-1871
Pouncy, John, photographer, 1818-1894
Talbot, Matilda Theresa, grandaughter of William Henry Fox Talbot, 1871-1958
Tissandier, Gaston, chemist, meteorologist, aviator and editor, 1843-1899