Henry’s pursuit of Ariadne on a panther

29 Jun 2018: This week’s guest author is Ann Compton, who has published extensively on sculpture and British art. Her idea, to develop and deliver an online resource dedicated to British sculpture, resulted in the wonderful ‘Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951’. Ann has been incredibly helpful in regard to many of …

Sgraffito of the Mind / Capturing the Soul

21 Jun 2018: I generally try to avoid talking about myself but one or three of you have noticed that I have been AWOL for some weeks now – Richard hinted at this in a recent note. I also try to avoid meetings, but the one in Oxford on the 15th May about our new backend software, Django, …

No way to treat a lady

15 Jun 2018: Guest post by Brian Liddy Last week my colleague, Jaanika, asked me if I had any ideas for a new Talbot blog post and suggested writing about Schaaf number 3710 as she had recently added an image making it one of the records on the project website with all its records complete and fully illustrated …

Observing by Polarisation

8 Jun 2018: Guest Post by Dr Kelley Wilder Last week was half-term in many places around the UK, and I suspect that many of us were hiking for at least part of the time if the weather held. If we had been more like the 21-year-old Henry Talbot, we might have embarked as he did on a …