January 2019

From the Director: goodbye (for now)

28 Jan 2019: Has it been forty years or four? The first partially formed steps of the Catalogue Raisonné were undertaken decades ago when I was trying to make sense of the masses of Talbot archive material. The attic and cupboards at Lacock Abbey were daunting enough but I soon realized that their generous bounty was only part …

The Australian Connection

25 Jan 2019: Snow is falling as I write here in Oxford, but that’s not the only thing falling hereabouts. Like the snow, as work continues on the catalogue raisonné the number of records with no image attached continues to drop. For that reason, we are grateful to all the Talbot owners who still send us images to …

A dash of colour

18 Jan 2019: You probably miss our weekly blogs as much as we do. But now that we’re in the middle of what is often thought of as the darkest winter month we thought it would be good to bring some extra added colour into our lives. Easier said than done when our project is dedicated to monochrome …