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Talbot Photo 5(56)

Record Id:

041-003304791

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-003304735

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100035611262.0x000001

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Talbot Photo 5(56)

Title:

[Ferdinandbrücke on the Donaukanal, Vienna. Photographer: Josef Berres.]

Scope & Content:

Inscribed: Berres ... A Monsieur Talbot à Londres.

View across the Danube showing a section of the bridge with buildings behind. Heliographed engraving from a daguerreotype by Dr Christian Joseph von Berres (1796-1844), cropped and laid down on paper mount. Signed inscription under image in ink. Image size 103 x 121 mm, press imprint size 109 x 164 mm, paper size 198 x 284 mm. Horizontal scratch marks, paper severely foxed.

This image is reproduced and discussed in Carolyn Bloore, Photography and printmaking 1840-1860 (University of Reading:1991). For Berres' own account of his early experiments in printing from daguerreotype images, with examples, see his very rare booklet, Phototyp nach der Erfindung des Professor Berres in Wien (Vienna: 1840), British Library shelfmark 1269.e.26.

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Project / Collection:

Talbot Collection

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003303408
040-003304735
041-003304791

Is part of:

Talbot Photo : Talbot Collection
Talbot Photo 5 : Talbot Collection: Photographic and Photoglyphic Engraving Proofs. Photographer(s): Talbot, William Henry Fox

Talbot Photo 5(56) : [Ferdinandbrücke on the Donaukanal, Vienna. Photographer: Josef Berres.]

Hierarchy:

032-003303408[0006]/040-003304735[0056]/041-003304791

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Talbot Photo

Record Type (Level):

Item

Extent:

1 item

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Not applicable

Scripts:

Not applicable

Techniques:

Photomechanical Print

Start Date:

1840

End Date:

1840

Date Range:

1840

Era:

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