Salt print from a calotype negative, 6-1/2 x 7-13/16 in. (165 x 198 mm), 1845/1846, unmounted. #513. Plate XXIV of The Pencil of Nature, although this print was printed separately. It was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, during a showing of "The Pencil of Nature," Jan.-April, 1989. See: What Is Photography: 150 Years of Photography, p.35; Lassam, Fox Talbot, Photographer, n.p.; and Goldschmidt and Naef, The Truthful Lens, pl.62; Braive, L'Age de la Photographie, p.14.
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