Not currently on display at the V&A

XIV. A Fruit Piece

Photograph
before June 1845 (photographed)
Artist/Maker

Salted paper print of a piece of fruit, on a page of the volume. One of 24 photographs in the publication.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleXIV. A Fruit Piece (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Salted paper print from a calotype negative. Not available for issue to the public in the Prints and Drawings Study Room due to light sensitivity. Please contact the Photography Department via our enquiry service for further information.
Brief description
Photograph by William Henry Fox Talbot, 'XIV. A Fruit Piece', salted paper print from a calotype negative, before June 1845
Physical description
Salted paper print of a piece of fruit, on a page of the volume. One of 24 photographs in the publication.
Dimensions
  • Image height: 163mm
  • Image width: 197mm
Credit line
The Royal Photographic Society Collection at the V&A, acquired with the generous assistance of the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Art Fund.
Object history
This volume contains the museum numbers RPS.270:1-2017 to RPS.270:27-2017.
Production
Published in Part 6 of The Pencil of Nature, in April 1846.
From a negative held by the National Science and Media Museum, object number 1937-1256.
Associated object
RPS.270-2017 (Album)
Bibliographic reference
Schaaf, Larry John. The Photographic Art of William Henry Fox Talbot. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2000. ISBN 0691050007.
Other number
RPS025384 - Royal Photographic Society number
Collection
Accession number
RPS.270:24-2017

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Record createdApril 6, 2017
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