The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné

Master record for Schaaf no. 771

Diminished copy of a lithographic print

Attributed to: William Henry Fox Talbot

Alternate titles

Variant of "The Pencil of Nature", Plate XI

The lithograph Talbot photographed is 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.