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Call Number:

PH-00036

Collection Name:

William Henry Fox Talbot Photography Collection

Creator:

Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)

No. of Items:

64 items

Span Dates:

1830s-1850s

Description:

Photographs include photogenic drawings and salted paper prints, also calotypes (paper negatives) and photoglyphic engravings. Time period represented late 1830s to late 1850s, with two modern prints made for the Royal Photographic Historical Society using Talbot’s methods during the centenary year of this death, 1977. Items include:

[Talbot loose prints] (964:0054:0001-0011, 0013-0031, 0033-0043, 0045-0058, 0061-0062, 0064);

Three photographic prints: Lacock Abbey 1840, March 21; Bust of Patroclus 1840, Feb. 29; [Treetop] 1841, Feb.
(974:0002:0001-0003);

Talbot Commemoration prints (“Photogenic Drawing” and “Leaves of Lacock” issued as supplements to the RPS Historical Group Newsletter for March and May 1977, respectively). (980:0030:0001-0002).

Accession No(s):

964:0054:0001-0011, 0013-0031, 0033-0043, 0045-0058, 0061-0062, 0064; 974:0002:0001-0003; 980:0030:0001-0002

Location(s):

Special permission required Henneman & Jones Box 1 (964:0054:0026, 0028, 0039-0041; 964:0595:0001)
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Special permission required Light Senstive Box 1 (980:0030:0001-0002)
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Special permission required 4 osb (Talbot Boxes 1-4)
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Item(s):
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title [Fern and jasmine]
Date 1839
Medium Photogenic drawing
Dimensions 21.7 x 16.3 cm; 8 1/2 x 6 2/5 in (irregular)
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0001
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title [Muslin and lace]
Date 1839.
Medium Photogenic drawing
Dimensions 22.7 x 18.3 cm; 8 9/10 x 7 1/5 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0002
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title At Lacock Abbey.
Date April 9, 1840
Medium Salted paper print
Dimensions 16.8 x 21 cm; 6 3/5 x 8 3/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0003
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title [Open carriage in the courtyard at Lacock Abbey].
Date April 17, 1840
Medium Salted paper print
Dimensions 17.6 x 21.6 cm; 6 9/10 x 8 1/2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0004
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title Cloisters of Lacock Abbey
Date April 19, 1840.
Medium Salted paper print
Dimensions 17.4 x 22 cm; 6 9/10 x 8 7/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0005
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title [Closed carriage with footman holding door]
Date 1840.
Medium Salted paper print
Dimensions 21 x 16.3 cm; 8 3/10 x 6 2/5 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0006
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title Cloisters of Lacock Abbey [detail]
Date 1840.
Medium Salted paper print
Dimensions 12.1 x 12.9 cm; 4 4/5 x 5 1/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0007
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title Scene at Lacock Abbey
Date 1840.
Medium Salted paper print
Dimensions 12.8 x 13.3 cm; 5 x 5 1/5 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0008
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title Lacock Abbey [courtyard exterior]
Date May 22, 1840.
Medium Salted paper print
Dimensions 16.8 x 18.6 cm; 6 3/5 x 7 3/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0009
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title Lacock Abbey [top of octagan tower]
Date 1840.
Medium Salted paper print
Dimensions 15 x 17.9 cm; 5 9/10 x 7 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0010
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title Scene at Lacock Abbey [trees]
Date between 1839 and 1841
Medium Salted paper print
Dimensions 16.6 x 21.2 cm; 6 1/2 x 8 3/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0011
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title Lacock Abbey [exterior]
Date 1841.
Medium Salted paper print
Dimensions 16.6 x 20.8 cm; 6 1/2 x 8 1/5 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0013
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title [Muslin and lace]
Date [1839?]
Medium Photogenic drawing
Dimensions 23 x 18.6 cm; 9 1/10 x 7 3/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0014
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title [Lace]
Date [1843?]
Medium Photogenic drawing
Dimensions 23 x 19 cm; 9 1/10 x 7 1/2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0015
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title Courtyard, Lacock Abbey [exterior with man seated and man standing]
Date [1841?]
Medium Salted paper print with applied color
Dimensions 16 x 19.8 cm; 6 3/10 x 7 4/5 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0016
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title [House in Paris]
Date 1843
Medium Salted paper print
Dimensions 16.8 x 17.3 cm; 6 3/5 x 6 4/5 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0017
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title [The chess players]
Date circa 1842
Medium Salted paper print
Dimensions 19.5 x 14.4 cm; 7 7/10 x 5 7/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0018
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title Stableyard in Talbotype
Date circa 1844
Medium Salted paper print
Dimensions 16.8 x 17.3 cm; 6 3/5 x 6 4/5 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0019
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title The Open Door [proof print]
Date [1845?]
Medium Salted paper print
Dimensions 14.4 x 19.5 cm; 5 7/10 x 7 7/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0020
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title [Engraving showing bridge and trees from Lacock Abbey]
Date [1842?]
Medium Photogenic drawing
Dimensions 18 x 15.5 cm; 7 1/10 x 6 1/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0021
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title [The cloisters at Lacock Abbey, with the Rev. Calvert Jones, seated]
Date circa 1845
Medium Salted paper print
Dimensions 16.5 x 20.7 cm; 6 1/2 x 8 1/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0022
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title [View of Yorkminster at street level]
Date July, 1845.
Medium Salted paper print
Dimensions 16 x 20.3 cm; 6 3/10 x 8 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0023
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title [Cathedral door]
Date circa 1842
Medium Salted paper print
Dimensions 7 x 5.9 cm; 2 4/5 x 2 3/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0024
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title [St. John's College Bridge]
Date circa 1844
Medium Salted paper print
Dimensions 16.4 x 20.7 cm; 6 1/2 x 8 1/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0025
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title [Clare Hall, Cambridge]
Date circa 1842
Medium Salted paper print
Dimensions 7.2 x 9.5 cm; 2 4/5 x 3 7/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0026
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title [Gate of Usk Castle, Monmouthshire]
Date circa 1843
Medium Salted paper print
Dimensions 10 x 8.1 cm; 3 9/10 x 3 1/5 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0027
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title [Wind Street, Swansea]
Date circa 1844
Medium Salted paper print
Dimensions 16.8 x 21.5 cm; 6 3/5 x 8 1/2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0028
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title [Engraving of a landscape]
Date circa 1844
Medium Salted paper print
Dimensions 21.2 x 17.4 cm; 8 3/10 x 6 9/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0029
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title [Melrose Abbey--general view]
Date June, 1846.
Medium Salted paper print
Dimensions 7.6 x 10.5 cm; 3 x 4 1/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0030
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title [The chess players]
Date June, 1846.
Medium Salted paper print
Dimensions 8.2 x 7 cm; 3 1/5 x 2 4/5 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0031
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title [Architectural detail from Orleans Cathedral]
Date June 1846.
Medium Salted paper print
Dimensions 16 x 20 cm; 6 3/10 x 7 9/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0033
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title [Part of Queen's College, Oxford]
Date June 1846.
Medium Salted paper print
Dimensions 15.8 x 20 cm; 6 1/5 x 7 9/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0034
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title [A Scene in a Library]
Date June, 1846.
Medium Salted paper print
Dimensions 13 x 17.7 cm; 5 1/10 x 7 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0035
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title [Hall door, Abbotsford]
Date June 1846.
Medium Salted paper print
Dimensions 16.6 x 20.9 cm; 6 1/2 x 8 1/5 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0036
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title Abbotsford
Date 1845.
Medium Salted paper print
Dimensions 14.7 x 21.6 cm; 5 4/5 x 8 1/2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0037
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title [Regency houses in Regent Street, London (or Bath)]
Date June, 1846.
Medium Salted paper print
Dimensions 9.9 x 8.3 cm; 3 9/10 x 3 3/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0038
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title [Deck of a warship]
Date June 1846.
Medium Salted paper print
Dimensions 16.4 x 20.3 cm; 6 1/2 x 8 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0039
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title [A neo-Gothic country house, entrance]
Date circa 1845
Medium Salted paper print
Dimensions 15.5 x 20 cm; 6 1/10 x 7 9/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0040
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title [A neo-Gothic church or chapel]
Date circa 1845
Medium Salted paper print
Dimensions 15.8 x 19.8 cm; 6 1/5 x 7 4/5 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0041
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title [English shops]
Date circa 1841
Medium Salted paper print
Dimensions 13.4 x 17.5 cm; 5 3/10 x 6 9/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0042
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title [St. George's Chapel at Windsor]
Date [184-]
Medium Salted paper print
Dimensions 16.7 x 19.9 cm; 6 3/5 x 7 4/5 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0043
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title Fac-simile of an old printed page
Date June 1844 - April, 1846.
Medium Salted paper print
Dimensions 16.7 x 14.3 cm; 6 3/5 x 5 3/5 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0045
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title [View of a country house]
Date [184-]
Medium Calotype
Dimensions 13.2 x 16.9 cm; 5 1/5 x 6 7/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0046
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title [Pediment of FitzWilliam Museum, Cambridge]
Date [184-]
Medium Calotype
Dimensions 13.8 x 17.4 cm; 5 2/5 x 6 9/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0047
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title [House and shed, possibly the building of the Reading establishment]
Date [184-]
Medium Calotype
Dimensions 17.4 x 20 cm; 6 9/10 x 7 9/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0048
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title [An eighteenth-century triumphal arch]
Date [184-]
Medium Calotype
Dimensions 13.9 x 22.2 cm; 5 1/2 x 8 7/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0049
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title [Palladian Bridge at Prior Park, Bath]
Date [184-]
Medium Calotype
Dimensions 14.2 x 22.3 cm; 5 3/5 x 8 4/5 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0050
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title [Landscape with trees and houses]
Date [184-]
Medium Calotype
Dimensions 17.4 x 21.9 cm; 6 9/10 x 8 3/5 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0051
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title [Court in the Alhambra, Granada]
Date 1858.
Medium Photoglyphic engraving
Dimensions 6.8 x 7.1 cm; 2 7/10 x 2 4/5 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0052
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title [View in Paris with Pont Neuf]
Date 1858.
Medium Photoglyphic engraving
Dimensions 6.4 x 7 cm; 2 1/2 x 2 4/5 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0053
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title [The broken bell at the Kremlin, Moscow]
Date 1858.
Medium Photoglyphic engraving
Dimensions 6.5 x 7.2 cm; 2 3/5 x 2 4/5 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0054
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title Portal of St. Trophimus, Arles
Date July 14, 1866.
Medium Photoglyphic engraving
Dimensions 13.3 x 19 cm; 5 1/5 x 7 1/2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0055
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title Church of St. Maurice at Vienne in France
Date July 12, 1866.
Medium Photoglyphic engraving
Dimensions 21.5 x 13.5 cm; 8 1/2 x 5 3/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0056
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title [Acacia leaf]
Date [185-]
Medium Photoglyphic engraving
Dimensions 10.2 x 7.2 cm; 4 x 2 4/5 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0057
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title [Lace]
Date [185-]
Medium Photoglyphic engraving
Dimensions 18.8 x 11.5 cm; 7 2/5 x 4 1/2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0058
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title Bridge over the River Moldau, at Prague, Bohemia
Date November 12, 1858.
Medium Photoglyphic engraving
Dimensions 6.6 x 6.8 cm; 2 3/5 x 2 7/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0061
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title The New Louvre, Paris
Date November 12, 1858.
Medium Photoglyphic engraving
Dimensions 6.6 x 7 cm; 2 3/5 x 2 4/5 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0062
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title The Tuileries
Date September 16, 1859.
Medium Photoglyphic engraving
Dimensions 16.5 x 16.6 cm; 6 1/2 x 6 1/2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0054:0064
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title Lacock Abbey [gate with trees].
Date March 21, 1840.
Medium Salted paper print
Dimensions 21.5 x 17.5 cm; 8 1/2 x 6 9/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Accession
Number		 974:0002:0001
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title Bust of Patroclus.
Date February 29, 1840.
Medium Salted paper print
Dimensions 15.7 cm; 6 1/5 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Accession
Number		 974:0002:0002
Artist/Maker Talbot, William Henry Fox (1800 - 1877)
Title [Treetop].
Date February, 1841.
Medium Salted paper print
Dimensions 15.3 x 17.3 cm; 6 x 6 4/5 in (notched edges)
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Accession
Number		 974:0002:0003
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title Photogenic Drawing made at Lacock Abbey on the Centenary of the death of William Henry Fox Talbot, 1800-1877
Date 1977.
Medium photogenic drawing
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Accession
Number		 980:0030:0001
Artist/Maker unidentified photographer
Title A Photogenic Drawing--Commemoration of the Centenary of the death of W. H. Fox Talbot, 17th September 1877
Date 1977.
Medium photogenic drawing
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Accession
Number		 980:0030:0002

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The Art-Union: The Art-Union: Monthly Journal of the Fine Arts (PH-02763)

The Photographic News: A Weekly Record of the Progress of Photography: The Photographic News: A Weekly Record of the Progress of Photography (PH-02764)

The Pencil of Nature: The Pencil of Nature (PH-00865)

Sun Pictures in Scotland: Sun Pictures in Scotland (PH-00866)