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Object within Schaaf no. 2417

Arrangement of six leaves [sunlight test of fixing]

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Object details

Created: 3 May 1840

Image size: h 22.6cm x w 18.3cm

Object Type: Paper Negative-Contact

Inscription: in pencil, verso by Henry Talbot: May 3/40; in pencil, verso by HT: W, long in Sun; pencil X3 recto [3 unusual - likely refers to 3 minute exposure]

Provenance:
Daniel Wolf, Inc., sold to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1985.

Owner: J. Paul Getty Museum

Object owner number: 85.XM.0150.009

Rights and Reproduction

This object is part of Schaaf no. 2417

Arrangement of six leaves [sunlight test of fixing]

Keywords: Experimental Botany

An experimental negative used as a sunlight test for fixing. '3' inscribed onto the negative within the 'X'is unusual and probably refers to 3 minute exposure.

The leaves rerepsented in this arrangement include field maple (centre); Ribes to the left, Privet and Celtis or Philadelphus