William Henry Fox Talbot

Portrait

c.1842

A Calotype Photograph being taken at Lacock Abbey

William Henry Fox Talbot   - Portrait 1842

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Portrait

Above is a calotype photograph being taken in Lacock Abbey, around 1842.  Talbot took several photographs of family, friends and servants at Lacock Abbey.

Despite the spontaneous appearance of some of these images, they must have required exposures of several minutes.

 

 

William Henry Fox Talbot

Discovery of Photography

Life in England

Connections with Edinbrugh

Correspondence

Photos, Sketches and Engravings

Pencil of Nature

 

 

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