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William Henry Fox Talbot: A Fruit Piece.

Posted by Alex Novak on September 11, 2011 at 19:31 in 19th-Century British Photography

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.

19th, British, Fox, Henry, Talbot, U.K., William, calotype, century, fruit, print, salt

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