Plate XI, "The Pencil of Nature", fascicle 2, 29 January 1845
Created: Between 1 Aug 1835 and 31 May 1844
Image size: h 14.2cm x w 19.3cm
Object Type: Salted Paper Print
Mount: ruled edge mount
Physical description: corners clipped to an octagon; pale; edge fading
Inscription: in ink below print, 11
Provenance: Victoria & Albert Museum, 2017 National Science and Media Museum, 2003 to 2017 Royal Photographic Society, number 025371 John Traill Taylor, 1896
Plate XI from "The Pencil of Nature". Published as part of the second fascicle on 29 January 1845. The lithograph Talbot photographed was by Godefroy Engelmann (1788-1839), after the original work by Louis Léopold Boilly (1761-1845), "Réunion de trente-cinq têtes diverses", c. 1820s. An original lithograph is held at Yale University Art Gallery.
