The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné

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Object within Schaaf no. 2380

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Object details

Created: 16 Apr 1840

Image size: h 19.0cm x w 21.2cm

Object Type: Paper Negative-Camera

Physical description: large tear from edge almost to centre of the print

Inscription: in pencil, verso, lower right, 16 April/40 [16 April 1840]; in pencil, verso, upper left, taken 22' [22 minute exposure]; possibly a stationer's raised blind-stamp

Watermark: [possibly a raised stationer's blind-stamp]

Owner: Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History

Object owner number: 1995.0206.187

Collection: Photographic History Collection

Supporting images

This object is part of Schaaf no. 2380

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The subject is possibly an architecural one, judging from the few visual clues in the dark passages of the print.