'The Botanic Gardens at Oxford'; 'The Schools Oxford' [Bodleian Library]; 'At Magdalen College Oxford'; and two others, each mid 1840s
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WILLIAM HENRY FOX TALBOT
'The Botanic Gardens at Oxford'; 'The Schools Oxford' [Bodleian Library]; 'At Magdalen College Oxford'; and two others, each mid 1840s
Five calotypes, 6½ x 6 in. to 6½ x 8 in., each mounted on card, two within ink border, these two titled and priced 3/- in ink and with circular blue ink stamps Patent Talbotype or Sun Pictures on verso, the others priced 2/6 in pencil on verso. (5)
'The Botanic Gardens at Oxford'; 'The Schools Oxford' [Bodleian Library]; 'At Magdalen College Oxford'; and two others, each mid 1840s
Five calotypes, 6½ x 6 in. to 6½ x 8 in., each mounted on card, two within ink border, these two titled and priced 3/- in ink and with circular blue ink stamps Patent Talbotype or Sun Pictures on verso, the others priced 2/6 in pencil on verso. (5)
Provenance
Clarkson Stanfield, thence by descent.
Literature
Christie's South Kensington, Sale of 19th and 20th Century Photographs, 18 June, 1981, lot 126 for another print of the view of the Botanical Gardens.