TALBOT WILLIAM HENRY FOX View of the Boulevards of Paris

Sale 1959 - Lot 4

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TALBOT, WILLIAM HENRY FOX
"View of the Boulevards of Paris." Salted paper print from a calotype negative, 6x7 3/4 inches (15.4x19.7 cm.), sheet size 7 1/4x8 3/4 inches (18.4x22.4 cm.), with a faint handwritten caption, in pencil, on verso and the notations "LA 49," in ink. 1843

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The polymath William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) was a philosopher, classicist, philologist, mathematician, physicist, and translator of Syrian and Chaladean cuneiform texts--in addition to his work as a photographer.