Carte-de-visite of William Henry Fox Talbot
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- Moffat, J.
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Photograph, carte-de-visite of W H Fox Talbot by J Moffat, 103 Princes Street, Edinburgh, no date (1860-1870) (seated working on parts of camera).
William Henry Fox Talbot (1802 – 1877) invented the calotype process. Developing the first reliable method for printing photographs from a negative, between 1835 – 1840.
John Moffat first opened a photographic studio in Edinburgh in 1853, and operated a number of successful studios across the city.
