The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné

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Object within Schaaf no. 332

Two copy negatives printed on a single sheet of paper: a walled garden (top), a rustic landscape (bottom)

Object details

Image size: h 19.8cm x w 12.4cm

Object Type: Paper Negative-Contact

Physical description: waxed; trimmed in to the images

Provenance:
Matilda Talbot 1934

Owner: National Science and Media Museum

Object owner number: 1937-3284

Collection: Science Museum Collection

This object is part of Schaaf no. 332

Two copy negatives printed on a single sheet of paper: a walled garden (top), a rustic landscape (bottom)

The practice of creating two negatives on the same piece of paper so that they could both be printed at the same time would have resulted in a faster rate for the production of photographic prints. Not only did this make the best use of supplies, such as paper and chemicals, it would also have made the best use of time and available sunlight.

See also Schaaf numbers 442, 333 and 671.