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The Broom a Stable Scene from Nature

Photograph
April 1844 (photographed)
Artist/Maker
Fox Talbot, William Henry (photographer)
Place of origin
United Kingdom (photographed)

Salted paper print of a broom leaning against the frame of an open doorway, plate 1 on a page of the album. One of 82 photographs in album.
'Alternative title' from handwritten contents page.

Object details

Categories
Photographs
Portraits
The Royal Photographic Society
Object type
Photograph
Titles
  • The Broom a Stable Scene from Nature (alternative title)
  • The Open Door (wide shadow) (generic title)
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.
Salted Paper
Calotype
Photography
Brief description
Photograph by William Henry Fox Talbot, 'The Broom a Stable Scene from Nature' ['The Open Door (wide shadow')], salted paper print from a calotype negative, 1844
Physical description
Salted paper print of a broom leaning against the frame of an open doorway, plate 1 on a page of the album. One of 82 photographs in album.
'Alternative title' from handwritten contents page.
Dimensions
  • Image height: 142mm
  • Image width: 194mm
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.269:1-2017 to RPS.269:82-2017.
Production
From a negative at the National Science and Media Museum, object number 1937-1247; same as photographs in the RPS collection, RPS025223, RPS025224, RPS025342; at the Harry Ransom Center, 964:054:019; at the National Science and Media Museum, 1937-1249, 1937-2530/10; at the Getty, 84.XO.0968.167, 84.XO.1369.006, 84.XZ.0571.006; at the Smithsonian, 67.172.48.
Associated object
RPS.269-2017 (Album)
Bibliographic references
  • William Henry Fox Talbot: pioneer of photography and man of science, by H. J. P. Arnold (London: Hutchinson, 1977): 064.
  • Fox Talbot and the invention of photography, by Gail Buckland (London: Scolar Press, 1980): 074.
  • Die aufgehobene Zeit: die Erfindung der Photographie durch William Henry Fox Talbot, by Hubertus von Amelunxen (Berlin: Nishen, 1988): 049.
  • Out of the Shadows: Herschel, Talbot and the Invention of Photography, by Larry J. Schaaf (Yale University Press: 1992): 089.
  • Sun Pictures, Catalogue 1, by Hans P. Kraus Jr. (1993): plate 5.
  • Schaaf, Larry John. The Photographic Art of William Henry Fox Talbot. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2000. ISBN 0691050007.
Other numbers
  • RPS025001 - Royal Photographic Society number
  • RPS v.42-01 - Royal Photographic Society number
Collection
Department of Photography
Accession number
RPS.269:1-2017

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Record createdApril 3, 2017
Record URL
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