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3. Abbotsford

Photograph
October 1844 (photographed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Salted paper print of Abbotsford, on a page in the volume. One of 23 photographs in the volume.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Title3. Abbotsford (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, '3. Abbotsford', salted paper print from a calotype negative, 1844
Physical description
Salted paper print of Abbotsford, on a page in the volume. One of 23 photographs in the volume.
Dimensions
  • Image height: 148mm
  • Image width: 217mm
Marks and inscriptions
3 (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 album contains the museum numbers RPS.283:1-2017 to RPS.283:23-2017.
Production
From a negative held by the National Science and Media Museum, object number 1937-1343; same as photographs in the RPS collection, RPS025016, RPS025391, RPS025414, RPS025460; at the Fox Talbot Museum, LA27, LA2005.
Associated object
RPS.283-2017 (Album)
Bibliographic references
  • Sun Pictures, Catalogue 1, by Hans P. Kraus Jr. (1993): plate 12.
  • Disciples of light: photographs in the Brewster album, by Graham Smith (Malibu: J Paul Getty Museum, 1990): 147.
  • Schaaf, Larry John. The Photographic Art of William Henry Fox Talbot. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2000. ISBN 0691050007.
Other number
RPS025437 - Royal Photographic Society number
Collection
Accession number
RPS.283:3-2017

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Record createdApril 11, 2017
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