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William Henry Fox Talbot
(United Kingdom, 1800-1877)
Estimate
40 000 - 60 000 SEK
3 850 - 5 780 EUR
4 430 - 6 650 USD
Hammer price
Unsold
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William Henry Fox Talbot
(United Kingdom, 1800-1877)
"MELROSE ABBEY, ca 1845".
Salt print, image 17.5 x 21 cm. Sheet size 18.5 x 22.5 cm. Watermark in upper right hand corner, "J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1840". Notation "LA32" in ink on verso. Printed around 1845 from a calotype negative. Vintage.
Provenance
Lacock Abbey Collection, England.
Christie's London, 1980.
Collection Karin & Lars Hall.
Literature
Hans P. Kraus, JR, "Sun Pictures", Fine Photographs, Catalogue one, illustrated full page, lot number 18.
"Camera Obscura. Camera Obscura 1977 - 1981, Volym 1", illustrated full page p. 4.
More information
Marked in pencil "LA32", on verso. Numbering made by Smithsonians curator Eugene Ostroff during inventory of the Lacock Abbey - collection during the nineteen-sixties.