Object within Schaaf no. 4160

Fac-simile of an Old Printed Page

Created: 12 Nov 1839

Image size: h 18.7cm x w 16.7cm

Paper size: h 23.0cm x w 19.0cm

Object Type: Salted Paper Print

Mount: removed album page

Physical description: 16.5 cm wide at the top; glue spots in corners; crease; two corners clipped

Inscription: ink verso: From a printed book. H.F.T.; ink verso: [in another hand] W.C. Trevelyan; pencil o verso

Watermark: J Whatman Turkey Mill 1839

Provenance:
Trevelyan family - offering no. 8

Owner: National Science and Media Museum

Object owner number: 1997-5014

Collection: Trevelyan Collection

The same page as that in Plate IX of, The Pencil of Nature.

A Talbot project blog post has been dedicated to this photograph.