The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné

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Object within Schaaf no. 66

Articles of China on four shelves

Object details

Alternate titles

Variant of Plate III, "The Pencil of Nature"

Object Type: Salted Paper Print

Mount: ruled edge mount

Physical description: varnished; corners clipped

Inscription: label, verso, Patent Talbotype or Sun Pictures; in pencil, verso, in Dudley Johnston's hand, Fox Talbot Articles of China (Pencil of Nature Plate III); circular RPS ink stamp, verso; three other RPS ink stamps, verso, two of which overlap the 'Patent' label

Provenance:
Victoria & Albert Museum, 2017
National Science and Media Museum, 2003 to 2017
Royal Photographic Society, number 025279

Owner: Victoria and Albert Museum

Object owner number: RPS.200-2017

Collection: Royal Photographic Society Collection

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