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X. The Haystack

Photograph
April 1844 (photographed)
Artist/Maker
Fox Talbot, William Henry (photographer)

Salted paper print of a haystack, on a page of the volume. One of 7 photographs in the fascicle.


Object details

Categories
Photographs
Portraits
The Royal Photographic Society
Object type
Photograph
TitleX. The Haystack (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, 'X. The Haystack', salted paper print from a calotype negative, 1844
Physical description
Salted paper print of a haystack, on a page of the volume. One of 7 photographs in the fascicle.
Dimensions
  • Image height: 161mm
  • Image width: 210mm
Marks and inscriptions
10 (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.272:1-2017 to RPS.272:7-2017.
Production
Published in Part 2 of The Pencil of Nature, in January 1845.
From a negative held by the National Science and Media Museum, object number 1937-1248; same as photographs in the RPS collection, RPS025002, RPS025227, RPS025278, RPS025370.
Associated object
RPS.272-2017 (Album)
Bibliographic references
  • Sun Pictures, Catalogue 1, by Hans P. Kraus Jr. (1993): plate 6.
  • Out of the Shadows: Herschel, Talbot and the invention of photography, by Larry J. Schaaf (Yale University Press, 1992): 101.
  • Fox Talbot and the invention of photography, by Gail Buckland (London: Scolar Press, 1980): 156.
  • Schaaf, Larry John. The Photographic Art of William Henry Fox Talbot. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2000. ISBN 0691050007.
Other numbers
  • RPS025346 - Royal Photographic Society number
  • XRP580 - RPS collection - V&A identifier
Collection
Department of Photography
Accession number
RPS.272:5-2017

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Record createdApril 10, 2017
Record URL
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