The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné

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Object within Schaaf no. 1302

Portrait of a man in spectacles

Object details

Alternate titles

Possibly the Egyptologist and linguist, Professor Karl Richard Lepsius

Created: 6 Aug 1842

Image size: h 7.7cm x w 4.0cm

Object Type: Paper Negative-Camera

Physical description: waxed; top edge is 3.8cm wide

Inscription: in pencil, verso, 6 Aug/42 [6 August 1842]

Provenance:
Matilda Talbot 1934

Owner: National Science and Media Museum

Object owner number: 1937-3778

Collection: Science Museum Collection

This object is part of Schaaf no. 1302

Portrait of a man in spectacles

Keywords: Backdrop

This portrait was probably taken during the same sitting as Schaaf number 4234. He also possibly appears in a group portrait, in Schaaf number 943.

The sitter has been identified possibly as the Egyptologist and linguist, Professor Karl Richard Lepsius (1810-1884).