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Bust of Patroclus

1841-1845

Cloud Study

1850-1860

The Reading Establishment Panorama (Right Half)

1845-1847

Bound Volume With Embossed Gilt 'Album' on Cover

Diego Velasquez: Portrait of Philip IV'

1847-08-31

Bound copy of 'Sun Pictures in Scotland', 1845. Printed title with motto from Virgil, page with list of plates and twenty three mounted calotypes. The book was issued to subscribers. The twenty-three images were taken by Talbot on a tour of sites and locations most connected with novelist Sir Walter Scott. The calotypes include images of Edinburgh, Scott's house at Abbotsford, Loch Katrine, Melrose, Doune Castle, Dryburgh Abbey (site of Scott's tomb) etc.

Sun Pictures in Scotland

1845

Juan De Yciar: His Portrait (1550)', calotype photographed by Nicolaas Henneman about 1847. Caligrapher Juan de Iciar (c 1523 - died after 1570) or Yciar, also known by the nickname of 'El Vizcaino', is considered to be the first to use printing and engraving techniques in Spain. Plate 2 in 'Annals of the Artists of Spain', published by Sir William Sterling Maxwell (1818-1878) in 1848.

Juan De Yciar: His Portrait (1550)'

Impressions of an engraving and of lace (made by direct contact) and negative and positive photomicrograph on one mount, (calotypes).

Impressions Of An Engraving And Of Lace

Diego Velasquez: His wife, Juana Pacheco (from a lithograph)', calotype photographed by Nicolaas Henneman 31 August 1847. Print from trimmed negative. Plate 24 in 'Annals of the Artists of Spain', published by Sir William Sterling Maxwell (1818-1878) in 1848. Spainsh painter Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (baptised 1599 - 1660) was a leading artist at the court of the Spainsh King Philip IV.

Diego Velasquez: His wife

1847-08-31

Second of two calotype prints, Capuchin Monks, Valenta (Valletta?), Malta, Rev Richard Calvert Jones, 1846. 'No 8, Capucin Friars, Second View'.

Capuchin Friars, Valenta, Malta

1846

Calotypes - Christ Church, Oxford; and another, on one mount.

Christ Church, Oxford

Murillo: St Francis (from an etching by Murillo)', calotype photographed by Nicolaas Henneman 31 August 1847. Printed from trimmed negative. Plate 58 in 'Annals of the Artists of Spain', published by Sir William Sterling Maxwell (1818-1878) in 1848. Spanish artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682).

Murillo: St Francis (from an etching by Murillo)'

1847-08-31

Calotype postiive, copy of 'The Virgin and Child', photographed by Nicolaas Henneman, about 1847.

Copy of a print 'The Virgin and Child'

Volume 1 of photographically illustrated book by John Thomson and the Autotype Company: 'Illustrations of China and its People'. One of four published volumes by Sampson, Low, Marston, Low and Searle, 1873-1874.

Volume 1 'Illustrations of China and its People'

1873-1874

Alonso Berruguete: Marble Tomb of Cardinal Juan de Tavera, Archbishop of Toledo, in the Hospital of St John The Baptist, at Toledo', calotype photographed by Nicolaas Henneman, 31 August 1841. Plate 3 in 'Annals of the Artists of Spain', published by Sir William Sterling Maxwell (1818-1878) in 1848. Spainsh sculptor, architect and artist Alonso González de Berruguete (1488-1561).

Alonso Berruguete: Marble Tomb of Cardinal Juan de Tavera

1847-08-31

Photogenic drawings, three positive salt prints of a single leaf, by William Henry Fox Talbot, about 1843. For negative of same image see 1937-2003.

Three photogenic drawings of leaf

1840-1845

Calotype copy of a print 'Las Hilanderas' (The Spinners), by Velasquez, photographed by Nicolaas Henneman 31 August 1847. Spainsh painter Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (baptised 1599 - 1660) was a leading artist at the court of the Spainsh King Philip IV.

Copy of 'Las Hilanderas' by Velasquez

1847-08-31

Salt print from Calotype (paper negative) of the left hand side of a two part panorama of, ‘The Reading establishment’, photographed by William Henry Fox Talbot and Nicolaas Henneman in 1846

The Reading Establishment Panorama (Left Half)

1845-1847

Volume 2 of photographically illustrated book by John Thomson and the Autotype Company: 'Illustrations of China and its People'. One of four published volumes by Sampson, Low, Marston, Low and Searle, 1873-1874.

Volume 2 'Illustrations of China and its People'

1873-1874

Photographically illustrated book by John Thomson and the Autotype Company: 'Illustrations of China and its People'. Published in four volumes by Sampson, Low, Marston, Low and Searle, 1873-1874. Contains approximately two hundred collotype reproductions of Thomson's photographs with letterpress descriptions of the places and people represented.

Illustrations of China and its People

1873-1874

Calotype negative copy of print 'Hagar in the Desert', photographed by William Herny Fox Talbot, March 1844. Variant of Plate XXIII from 'The Pencil of Nature'.

Hagar in the Desert

1844-03

Josef de Ribera: Etching of Don Juan of Austria', calotype photographed by Nicolaas Henneman, 31 August 1847. Print 37 in 'Annals of the Artists of Spain', published by Sir William Sterling Maxwell (1818-1878) in 1848. Print from untrimmed negative. Spanish painter and printmaker José de Ribera (1591-1652), also known as Jusepe de Ribera, Giuseppe Ribera or 'Lo Spagnoletto' (The Little Spaniard).

Josef de Ribera: Etching of Don Juan of Austria'

1847-08-31

Volume 3 of photographically illustrated book by John Thomson and the Autotype Company: 'Illustrations of China and its People'. One of four published volumes by Sampson, Low, Marston, Low and Searle, 1873-1874.

Volume 3 'Illustrations of China and its People'

1873-1874

Calotype postive, copy of a lithographic print of a crowd scene, photographed by William Henry Fox Talbot, May 1844.

Copy of a Lithographic Print of a Crowd Scene

1844-05

Calotype copy of a print of boys playing at soldiers by Goya, photographed by Nicolaas Henneman, about 1845. Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828), Spanish painter and printmaker.

Copy of a print by Goya, Boys Playing At Soldiers

Pedro Orrente: His Portrait (Louvre, from a drawing by M Tessin)', calotype photograph by Nicolaas Henneman, 31 August 1847. Plate 12 in 'Annals of the Artists of Spain', published by Sir William Sterling Maxwell (1818-1878) in 1848.

Pedro Orrente: His Portrait

1847-08-31

Murillo: St Thomas of Villaneuva, Archbishop of Valencia, Giving Alms at the Door of his Cathedral', calotype photograph by Nicolass Henneman, 31 August 1847. Plate 44 in 'Annals of the Artists of Spain', published by Sir William Sterling Maxwell (1818-1878) in 1848. Spanish artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682).

Murillo: St Thomas of Villaneuva

1847-08-31

Luis Tristan: Head Supposed to be his Portrait (from a Drawing by William Barclay)', calotype photograph by Nicolaas Henneman, 31 August 1847. Print from an uncropped negative. Print 11 in 'Annals of the Artists of Spain', published by Sir William Sterling Maxwell (1818-1878) in 1848. Luis Tristán de Escamilla (1586–1624), also known as Luis Rodríguez Tristán, was a Spanish painter.

Luis Tristan: Head Supposed to be his Portrait (from a Drawing by William Barclay)'

1847-08-31

Calotype negative copy of print 'Hagar in the Desert', photographed by William Herny Fox Talbot, March 1844. Hypo fixed. Variant of Plate XXIII from 'The Pencil of Nature'.

Hagar in the Desert

1844-03

St. Mary le Strand; and another building, (2 calotypes) on one mount.

Views of St Mary-le-Strand and Another Building

Ponte Vecchio, Florence; and Temple of Vesta, Rome, (2 calotypes) on one mount.

Ponte Vecchio, Florence and Temple of Vesta

Volume 4 of photographically illustrated book by John Thomson and the Autotype Company: 'Illustrations of China and its People'. One of four published volumes by Sampson, Low, Marston, Low and Searle, 1873-1874.

Volume 4 'Illustrations of China and its People'

1873-1874

Collection of calotype prints, 1841 to 1843. Will rapidly deteriorate if handled or exposed to light. Kept in black paper parcels.

Collection of Calotype Prints

1841-1843

Photogenic drawing, negative salt print of a single leaf, by William Henry Fox Talbot, about 1843. For positive of same image see 1937-2005.

Paper negative made from leaf

1840-1845

Calotype postive copy of print 'Hagar in the Desert', photographed by William Herny Fox Talbot, March 1844. Variant of plate XXIII from 'The Pencil of Nature'. Inscribed '23' in pencil on reverse.

Hagar in the Desert

1844-03

Calotype copy of a print of boys playing on a see-saw by Goya, photographed by Nicolaas Henneman, about 1845. Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828), Spanish painter and printmaker.

Copy of a print by Goya, Boys Playing on a See-Saw

Luis Tristan: Head Supposed to be his Portrait (from a Drawing by William Barclay)'

1847-08-31

Calotype print by Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot, titled 'Villa Reale, Naples', 30 May 1846.

Villa Reale, Naples

30 May 1846

Salt print portrait of Nicolaas Henneman reading a book, seated in the cloisters at Lacock Abbey, photographed by William Herny Fox Talbot, July 1842. Hypo fixed. Inscribed in pencil 'E9' on reverse.

Nicolaas Henneman Reading in the Cloisters at Lacock Abbey

1842-07

Cover for 'Sun Pictures in Scotland' by William Henry Fox Talbot, 1845.

Cover of 'Sun Pictures in Scotland'

1845

A photograph of the House of Sallust with Vesuvius in the background, Pompeii, Italy, Spring 1846 by Calvert Richard Jones.

House of Sallust with Vesuvius in the background, Pompeii, Italy, Spring 1846

1846

Views on board a man-of-war, (2 calotypes) on one mount.

Views On Board a Man-of-War

9 calotype portraits on one mount.

Nine Calotype Portraits on One Mount

Fox Talbot's photographic printing establishment at Reading (2 calotypes) on one mount.

Fox Talbot's Photographic Printing Establishment at Reading

Calotypes - 2 views at Lacock Abbey (showing figures) on one mount.

Two Views at Lacock Abbey

Juan de Herrera: Palace Front', calotype photograph by Nicolaas Henneman 31 August 1847. Trimmed negative. Plate 9 in 'Annals of the Artists of Spain', published by Sir William Sterling Maxwell (1818-1878) in 1848. Juan Herrera (1530-1597) was a Spanish architect and mathematician. View of San Lorenzo El Escorial.

Juan de Herrera: Palace Front'

1847-08-31

Calotype negative, copy of 'Church of St Miguel, Guadalajara', photographed by Nicolaas Henneman, 1842. Diminished copy of a print. Pencil 'X' on recto.

Copy of 'Church of St Miguel, Guadalajara'

1847-08-31

Buildings (2 calotypes) on one mount.

Calotypes

Calotype copy of a print of boys playing at soldiers by Goya, photographed by Nicolaas Henneman, about 1845. Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828), Spanish painter and printmaker.

Copy of a print by Goya, Boys Playing At Soldiers

Calotype, copies of four prints, photographed by William Henry Fox Talbot, 31 August 1847. Plates 28, 42, 52 and 61 in 'Annals of the Artists of Spain', published by Sir William Sterling Maxwell (1818-1878) in 1848.

Copies of four prints from 'Annals of the Artist in Spain'

1847-08-31

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