I. Part of Queen's College

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Artist/Maker	Fox Talbot, William Henry (photographer)
Place of origin	Cambridge (photographed)

Salted paper print of part of Queen's College in Oxford, plate 1 on a page of the volume. One of 5 photographs in this fascicle.

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Categories	Photographs Portraits The Royal Photographic Society
Object type	Photograph
Title	I. Part of Queen's College (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	Salted paper print from a calotype negative. Salted Paper Calotype Photography
Brief description	Photograph by William Henry Fox Talbot, 'I. Part of Queen's College', salted paper print from a calotype negative, before June 1844
Physical description	Salted paper print of part of Queen's College in Oxford, plate 1 on a page of the volume. One of 5 photographs in this fascicle.
Dimensions	Image height: 159mm Image width: 202mm
Marks and inscriptions	1 (Recto on mount, in ink.)
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.271:1-2017 to RPS.271:5-2017.
Production	Published in Part 1 of The Pencil of Nature, in June 1844. From a negative held by the National Science and Media Museum, object number 1937-1284; same as photographs in the RPS collection, RPS025031, RPS025218, RPS025361; same as Pencil of Nature plate 1 "Part of Queen's College, Oxford".
Associated object	RPS.271-2017 (Album)
Bibliographic references	Out of the Shadows: Herschel, Talbot and the invention of photography, by Larry J. Schaaf (Yale University Press, 1992): 094. Schaaf, Larry John. The Photographic Art of William Henry Fox Talbot. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2000. ISBN 0691050007.
Other number	RPS025337 - Royal Photographic Society number
Collection	Department of Photography
Accession number	RPS.271:1-2017

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Record created	April 6, 2017
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1389202/i-part-of-queens-college-photograph-fox-talbot-william/

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