The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné

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Object within Schaaf no. 3846

Copy of a bust of Catherine Mary Walter

Object details

Image size: h 10.6cm x w 6.2cm

Paper size: h 10.7cm x w 7.0cm

Object Type: Salted Paper Print

Physical description: corners of the negative clipped; image clipped; top right corner torn away

Watermark: Wha 18

Watermark (expanded): J Whatman Turkey Mill 18[4?]

Provenance:
Matilda Talbot 1934

Owner: National Science and Media Museum

Object owner number: 1937-2977/1

Collection: Science Museum Collection

This object is part of Schaaf no. 3846

Copy of a bust of Catherine Mary Walter

Keywords: Sculpture

This photograph by Nicolaas Henneman was printed in one of the first books published with a photograph, Record of the death-bed of C. M. W.  Henneman was commissioned to produce prints from the negative of the bust in 1844, after Catherine Mary Walter's death.