The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné

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Object within Schaaf no. 2140

Woman in a bonnet, taken with a "Mousetrap" camera

Object details

Image size: h 5.7cm x w 4.7cm

Object Type: Paper Negative-Camera

Physical description: chemicals applied in uneven circular daub patterns; possibly an experimental print, explaining why a large portion of one lower corner has been clipped, removed

Provenance:
Matilda Talbot 1934

Owner: National Science and Media Museum

Object owner number: 1937-1452

Collection: Science Museum Collection

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This object is part of Schaaf no. 2140

Woman in a bonnet, taken with a "Mousetrap" camera

Keywords: Portrait

This full length portrait has been taken out of doors, with an architectural setting and some shrubbery just visible behind the subject.