The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné

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Object within Schaaf no. 371

Copy of a lithograph of a Persian newspaper

Object details

Image size: h 22.9cm x w 18.7cm

Object Type: Paper Negative-Contact

Provenance:
Matilda Talbot 1934

Owner: National Science and Media Museum

Object owner number: 1937-4254

Collection: Science Museum Collection

This object is part of Schaaf no. 371

Copy of a lithograph of a Persian newspaper

This is a photographic copy of a lithograph of a page from a Persian newspaper.  The lithograph was made by Joseph Netherclift (1792-1863).

Talbot sourced his lithograph of the Persian newspaper page from a book by Charles Stewart (1764-1837).

Charles Stewart, "Original Persian Letters, and other documents, with fac-similes", London, 1825 (Newspaper No. 3, pl. 24, p.216).

The actual book from which Talbot removed plate 24 to make his photographic copy of the page is held by Bodleian Libraries.  Details can be seen here.

Bodleian Libraries own three copies of this book in total.  A digitised copy of one of those three, with plate 24 intact, can be viewed here.

See also, Larry J Schaaf, "Records of the Dawn of Photography: Talbot's Notebooks P & Q", Cambridge University Press, 1996 (Notebook P13, Feb [10] 1839).