The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné

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Object within Schaaf no. 5330

Copy of a print, two figures holding bowls on outstretched arms

Object details

Image size: h 9.6cm x w 9.1cm

Object Type: Salted Paper Print

Inscription: pencil X recto; in ink, recto, upper right, 2; in ink, verso, upper right, fx h [or possibly fx/2]

Owner: Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History

Object owner number: 1995.0206.441

Collection: Photographic History Collection

Supporting images

This object is part of Schaaf no. 5330

Copy of a print, two figures holding bowls on outstretched arms

Possibly a copy of a bookplate, or portion of a title page.

The image is a satirical political image, possibly related to parliamentary reform. Two figures are depicted holding outstretched bowls while a wigged gentleman in a hammock above them reaches down to take from one of the bowls.

See Schaaf number 5323.