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Photo 1246/4(12)
- Record Id:
- 041-004566619
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003188837
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100191777807.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 1246/4(12)
- Title:
- High Street Oxford. Photographer(s): Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800-1877)
- Scope & Content:
- View of a street with trees on the right: a horse and cart and buildings in the distance.
Salted paper print; from Calotype negative; print faded and yellowed; further yellowing from edges; tear on left edge.
Inscription in pencil beneath print on the left: 'W.H. Fox Talbot.', 'High Street Oxford.'
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003188837
040-003188871
041-004566619 - Is part of:
- Photo 1246 : Story-Maskelyne, John Dillwyn Llewelyn Archive: Photographs, watercolours and drawings from the Maskelyne and Llewelyn families
Photo 1246/4 : Story-Maskelyne, Dillwyn Llewelyn Archive: [Photograph album containing 29 prints principally by Nevil Story-Maskelyne, but…
Photo 1246/4(12) : High Street Oxford. Photographer(s): Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800-1877) - Hierarchy:
- 032-003188837[0004]/040-003188871[0012]/041-004566619
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 1246
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Techniques:
- Photograph
Photographic Print
Salted Paper Print
Salted Paper Print From Calotype Negative - Start Date:
- 1842
- End Date:
- 1852
- Date Range:
- c 1847
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Appointment Required to view these records. Please consult Asian and African Studies Print Room staff
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Medium: Salt Paper Print
Dimensions: 188 x 171 mm
Format: Photograph Album
Secondary Support: Paper
- Publications:
-
Buckland, Gail, Fox Talbot and the invention of photography, Scolar Press, London 1980, p.176.
Ward, John, Printed Light: the scientific art of William Henry Fox Talbot and David Octavius Hill with Robert Adamson, Scottish National Portrait Gallery by H.M.S.O., Edinburgh, 1986, p.94.
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Talbot, William Henry Fox, pioneer of photography, 1800-1877
- Subjects:
- Carts
Shops
Street Scenes
Trees
Universities & Colleges - Places:
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe
- Related Material:
-
Corresponds to salted paper prints Talbot Photo 2 (190), 2(191), 2(189) and 16(14) at the British Library; a paper negative (1937-1777) and eight salted paper prints (1937-1778) at the National Science and Media Museum; salted paper prints (RPS.179-2017) and (RPS.269:37.2017) in the V&A; salted paper print (x1973-65) at Princeton University Art Museum; salted paper print (M.2008.40.911) at Los Angeles County Museum of Art; a salted paper print (84.XM.478.5) in the Getty; salted paper prints (2005.100.773), (N.A.203.7.8) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art; and salted paper print (94.418 / ST1998.470) at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.