Lot 20
20
WILLIAM HENRY FOX TALBOT (1800-1877)
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VA… Read more EARLY BRITISH PHOTOGRAPHS
WILLIAM HENRY FOX TALBOT (1800-1877)

Tom Tower, Oxford; The Martyr's Monument, Oxford

Details
WILLIAM HENRY FOX TALBOT (1800-1877)
Tom Tower, Oxford; The Martyr's Monument, Oxford
2 salt prints from calotype negatives. 1842-43; 1843. Each numbered 18 and 21 respectively in pencil on the mount; the first numbered LA18, the second numbered LA20 (deleted) and LA21 in ink on the reverse of the mount.
6½ x 7 5/8in. (16.5 x 19.4cm.); 8 x 6 1/8in. (20.5 x 15.6cm.) (2)
Literature
See: Schaaf, The Photographic Art of William Henry Fox Talbot, p. 178 and pl. 73
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

Schaaf and 1923

The LA (Lacock Abbey) reference number on the back of the prints in this and the following lots confirms that they came from the Talbot family archive, where they are likely to have remained until the 1960s or later.

More from Photographs

View All
View All