The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné

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Object within Schaaf no. 1

Villagio

Object details

Created: Between 1 Jan 1839 and 30 Jun 1839

Image size: h 14.1cm x w 10.2cm

Paper size: h 17.3cm x w 11.0cm

Object Type: Salted Paper Print

Physical description: One edge of negative "lost", or off print

Inscription: Pencil "X" recto, pencil, verso, "fx b"; pencil, verso, "M.T.T."

Provenance:
John Dillwyn Llewelyn Collection

Owner: Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

Object owner number: Dep. d. 996, fol. 29r

Collection: The John Dillwyn Llewelyn Collection Of Talbot Photographic Materials

This object is part of Schaaf no. 1

Villagio

This is a photographic print from a cliché verre. Talbot has used the cliché verre as he would one of his paper negatives.

In the days of photography, cliché verre was a process that was usually associated with artists rather than photographers. A sheet of glass would be coated with a substance which the artist could scratch an image into. It is, essentially, a simple form of etching directly onto glass. Talbot realised early on that he could use a finished cliché verre to produce a photographic copy by placing the glass directly onto a sheet of sensitised paper before exposing it to light, just as he did with botanical specimens, leaves and fragments of lace.