Physical description: corners of the negative clipped
Inscription: I.HW. [intensified by Harold White]
Provenance: The British Library, gift of Janet and Petronella Burnett-Brown, 1 March 2006 Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock Abbey, National Trust (LA936; 00848)
The boy on the table may be Charles Stratton (General Tom Thumb) - the 19th century American entertainer with dwarfism. If so, the photograph could either have been taken during his tour of England in 1844; otherwise it may have been taken by the American promoters of the calotype; the Langenheim brothers or Edward Anthony.
