The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné

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Object within Schaaf no. 531

Copy of an elaborate pattern, possibly wallpaper

Object details

Image size: h 11.5cm x w 9.5cm

Object Type: Paper Negative-Contact

Inscription: pencil rule lines along two edges; distinctive pencil mark

Provenance:
Matilda Talbot 1934

Owner: National Science and Media Museum

Object owner number: 1937-1095

Collection: Science Museum Collection

This object is part of Schaaf no. 531

Copy of an elaborate pattern, possibly wallpaper

This fragment of an elaborately patterned piece of paper can be seen elsewhere in Talbot's oeuvre. Paper bearing the same design was used to line an easel used to make photographc reproductions of lithographic prints and etchings. The easel itself was photographed on it's own, but with the wallpaper lining in place (see Schaaf number 523, 524, 525 and 537). Ocassionally the wallpaper, if it was wallpaper, can be glimpsed from behind the cithograph being photographed (see Schaaf number 773).