現場拍賣 2279The Miller-Plummer Collection of Photographs
拍品 532Notice to the Reader. The plates of the present work are impressed by the agency of Light alone, without any aid whatever from the artist's pencil. They are the sun-pictures themselves, and not, as some people have imagined, engravings in imitation. William Henry Fox Talbot

WILLIAM HENRY FOX TALBOT (1800-1877)

The Pencil of Nature

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WILLIAM HENRY FOX TALBOT (1800-1877)
The Pencil of Nature
London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1844. 11 salted paper prints from calotype negatives; Parts I (plates I-V), III (plates XIII-XV) and IV (plates XV-XVIII), each with accompanying letterpress page, each with plate number '1-5' and '13-18 in ink (on the mount); each accompanied by letterpress description; varying sizes from 6¼ x 7 7/8in. (15.8 x 20cm.) to 5 1/8 x 5in. (23 x 22.8cm.); inscribed 'E.R. Pratt Rebound 1890' in ink (on the flyleaf); 'Notice' pasted to reverse of mount (Plate XIII); Part I with 'Introductory Remarks' and 'A Brief Historical Sketch of the Invention of the Art'; bound in a large 4to. volume, with stamped gilt title 'Sun Pictures, F. [sic] Fox Talbot, 1844' (on the spine)

With George Rinhart;
to the present owner; acquired 1970s