Photograph (Experimental Photogenic Drawing) of Magnified Lace, by W. H. Fox Talbot, from the Photographic Experiments of Sir John Herschel, 1839 | |||||||||||
Inventory Number: | 79213 | ||||||||||
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William Henry Fox Talbot (Photographer) Sir John Frederick William Herschel (Owner) | ||||||||||
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Accession Number: | 1928-71 | ||||||||||
Brief Description: | Experimental photogenic drawing (photomicrograph) of magnified lace by W. H. F. Talbot, undated but September 1839, made as an experiment in photographing microscope images. The paper is unevenly cut, semi-circular with the bottom right corner cut away, and inscribed on the back by Talbot. It shows a negative image of plain pattern lace as magnified and projected through the solar microscope, the pale lilac coloured image faint (probably faded) but good. Given to Herschel by Talbot as a specimen of his experiments with photography by means of the solar microscope. For fuller descriptive and historical commentary see narratives. | ||||||||||
Primary Inscriptions: | Inscribed on back: 'Lace | in the Solar microscope' [in Talbot's hand]. | ||||||||||
Provenance: | Presented by Miss Herschel and Lady Lubbock in 1928. They were the two surviving and youngest children of Sir John Herschel (Francisca and Constance). | ||||||||||
Collection Group: | Herschel's Photographic Experiments | ||||||||||
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