The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné

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Object within Schaaf no. 429

Diminished copy of a lithograph by John (HB) Doyle, "The Waits"

Object details

Image size: h 6.0cm x w 7.8cm

Object Type: Paper Negative-Camera

Physical description: Waxed

Provenance:
Matilda Talbot 1934

Owner: National Science and Media Museum

Object owner number: 1937-1030

Collection: Science Museum Collection

This object is part of Schaaf no. 429

Diminished copy of a lithograph by John (HB) Doyle, "The Waits"

Keywords: Politics Satire Caricature

The original lithograph is a political satire and shows a group of five musicians playing the violin (Sir Robert Peel), the clarinet (Duke of Wellington), the trombone (Lord Stanley), the French horn (Lord Lyndhurst) and the cello (Sir James Graham). It was published on 31 December 1840 by Thomas McLean's General Lithographic Establishment, London. This means Talbot's photograph of the lithograph must have been taken some time after that date.