Photoglyphic engraving of fern 'Adiantum capillus-veneris'

PART OF:
Six Fern Prints
Made:
circa 1858 in United Kingdom
maker:
William Henry Fox Talbot
Photoglyphic engraving from a copper plate made by William Photoglyphic engraving from a copper plate made by William Photoglyphic engraving from a copper plate made by William

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Photoglyphic engraving from a copper plate made by William
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Photoglyphic engraving from a copper plate made by William
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London

Photoglyphic engraving from a copper plate made by William
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London

Photoglyphic engraving from a copper plate made by William Henry Fox Talbot of a fern 'Adiantum capillus-veneris'

Talbot was the English inventor of photography. Spurred on by frustration at his inability to draw accurately, he saw the potential for using new photographic processes to capture botanical detail. He developed a technique called photoglyphic engraving, intended to overcome the fact that some of his early experimental photographs faded. Photoglyphs used sensitised gelatine to fix the image to the surface of a metal plate that could then be etched, inked and printed onto paper. He tried using a range of English flora.

Details

Category:
Photographs
Object Number:
1937-5046/4
Materials:
paper (fibre product) and ink
Measurements:
overall: 258 mm x 170 mm
type:
photoglyphic print
credit:
Matilda Talbot