Unidentified Photographer
Talbot, William Henry Fox (later photographer/printer)
English (1800-1877)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Window tracery and heroic sculpture

ca. 1858-60
photogravure print
6.6 x 10.0 cm. (plate)
Gift of the Smithsonian
GEH NEGS: 11882 14009
67:0048:0009

OLD GEH NUMBER: 74:047:68

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 96.//

NOTES: Catalogued 4/97, MAP. This print was made by Elisabeth M. Harris around 1970. See her letter to Robert Bretz (Assistant Curator at the George Eastman House): "... as to conservation -- as soon as I had printed your two plates..." See also enclosed note written by Walter Clark: "Fox Talbot, Photo- glyphic Engraving. See letter DASpencer. W. Clark, June 9, 1948. Harold White-W. Clark, Aug. 2, 1948 (from Miss Talbot + White): These engravings were soaked in rusty water as a result of a flood in Nov., 1948. They were cleaned by sawbbing with hypochlorite on a wad of cotton, and followed by acetic acid swabbing. They were not washed. Immersion in water causes the paper to soften and blister. They were not sized after restoration. W. Clark". The photographer of this image is not known. The photoglyphic process was patented by Talbot in 1858.

SUBJECTS:
architecture, window
architecture, sculpture