Artist of the Week- William Henry Fox Talbot

   

                                                                 William Henry Fox Talbot, by John Moffat, 1864.

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/306343

View of the Boulevards of Paris1843

William Henry Fox Talbot British

                                                               The photographic workshop in Reading, 1846

William Henry Fox Talbot (British - An Oak Tree in Winter )

                                           Photomicrograph of insect wings by Talbot using a solar microscope

                                                                    Dandelion seeds (1858 or later)

     Latticed window at Lacock Abbey, August 1835. A positive from what may be the oldest existing camera negative.

Exhibition Credits

Support for the exhibition is generously provided by the William Talbott Hillman Foundation.

https://cmoa.org/exhibition/talbot/

The Fruit Sellers was taken in September 1845 at Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire and the shot required the sitters to hold a pose for up to 10 seconds

https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/william-henry-fox-talbot-1800-1877-the-half-5880871-details.aspx

Half Moon

William Henry Fox TALBOT - Asparagus Foliage, early 1840s

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-38943511

BODLEIAN LIBRARIES, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

image captionThe collection includes images of botany like this Three Botanical Specimens taken in about 1840

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/tlbt/hd_tlbt.htm

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