Articles of Glass

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WILLIAM HENRY FOX TALBOT
Articles of Glass
Salt print from a calotype negative. Before June 1844. Annotated LA4 in ink on verso.
Image size 5 3/16 x 5 15/16 in. (13.2 x 15.1 cm.), paper size 7 3/8 x 9 1/8 in. (18.7 x 23.2 cm.)

Literature

See: Schaaf, H. Fox Talbot's The Pencil of Nature, Anniversary Facsimile, Introductory volume, p. 48 and No. 1, plate IV;
see: Roberts, "Specimens and Marvels: William Henry Fox Talbot The Invention of Photography" in Aperture, no. 161, p. 49;
see: Schaaf, The Photographic Art of William Henry Fox Talbot, pp. 192-3; Heiting, At the Still Point, Photographs from the Manfred Heiting Collection, vol. I, 1840-1916, pl. 8.

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Lot Essay

This is an exceptional example of the same image as that used for plate IV in the first part of The Pencil of Nature, which was issued in 1844.

The "LA" [Lacock Abbey] reference number on the back of this print confirms that it came from the Talbot family archive, where it is likely to have remained until the 1960s or later.

Schaaf no. 69

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