
Lot 14*
PHOTOGRAPHY - FOX TALBOT TALBOT (WILLIAM HENRY FOX) Coley Avenue, Reading, c.1845
23 March 2022, 12:00 GMT
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PHOTOGRAPHY - FOX TALBOT
TALBOT (WILLIAM HENRY FOX) Coley Avenue, Reading, salt print from calotype negative, mounted on card, verso with unrelated pencil note in Calvert Jones' hand [Schaaf no. 326], 160 x 175mm., c.1845
Footnotes
Fox Talbot set up a photographic studio in Reading in 1844 (the 'Reading Establishment'), and many of the images for The Pencil of Nature - the first book to be illustrated with photographic prints - were printed there.
Provenance: Sotheby's, 8 May 1992, lot 138; Bonhams, San Francisco, 7 November 2007, lot 628.