The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné

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Object within Schaaf no. 3399

7. Capucin Friars, Malta, 2nd series

Object details

Image size: h 8.2cm x w 10.1cm

Object Type: Salted Paper Print

Physical description: printed after a fifth figure standing at the back of the group was retouched or inked out of the composition

Provenance:
Matilda Talbot 1934

Owner: National Science and Media Museum

Object owner number: 1937-4729/2

Collection: Science Museum Collection

This object is part of Schaaf no. 3399

7. Capucin Friars, Malta, 2nd series

Keywords: Malta

An early example of image manipulation. It is clear from the photographic negative that there were originally five people in this composition, not four. Mysteriously, the figure standing at the back of the group has been inked-out so that they don't show in any prints made from it.

Related to Schaaf number 2929.