Oct 22, 2009 - Sale 2191

Sale 2191 - Lot 4

Price Realized: $ 9,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,500
TALBOT, WILLIAM HENRY FOX (1800-1877)
Portrait of Talbot's daughter Ela (?). Salted paper print from a calotype negative, 3 3/4x3 inches (9.5x7.6 cm.). Early 1840s
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From the Collection of James B. Parks.


Talbot's three daughters Rosamund, Ela and Matilda appear in a number of photographs from the 1840s. The one offered here resembles a portrait of Ela that is reproduced in Geoffrey Batchen's "William Henry Fox Talbot" (p. 29), in which she charmingly clutches a bouquet of flowers. Rosamund also appears frequently as a subject.