The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné

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Object within Schaaf no. 630

Copy of "Some Account of the Art of Photogenic Drawing", Philosophical Magazine, p. 196

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Image size: h 15.4cm x w 9.0cm

Object Type: Paper Negative-Camera

Physical description: waxed

Owner: Private

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This object is part of Schaaf no. 630

Copy of "Some Account of the Art of Photogenic Drawing", Philosophical Magazine, p. 196

Talbot’s first paper on photography, “Some Account of the Art of Photogenic Drawing” was read to the Royal Society in London on 31 January 1839.  A short synopsis was then published in the ‘Proceedings of the Royal Society’, vol. 4, no. 36, 31 January 1839, pp. 120-21.  

The printed page of text shown here, copied photographically by Talbot, bears the same title, but this particular page was taken from a later re-print of Talbot’s entire paper in the ‘Philosophical Magazine’, series 3, vol. XIV, March 1839, pp. 196-208.

An informative post by professor Larry Schaaf on Talbot’s paper, including a link to the entire original printed text, is available here.