Oct 19, 2017 - Sale 2458

Sale 2458 - Lot 19

Price Realized: $ 4,680
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,500
WILLIAM HENRY FOX TALBOT (1800-1877)
The Cloisters of Lacock Abbey. Salted paper print from a calotype negative, the image measuring 6 1/2x8 1/2 inches (16.5x21.6 cm.), the sheet 7 1/2x9 3/8 inches (19.1x23.8 cm.), with the numeric notation LA 16, in ink, on verso. Circa 1844

Additional Details

This image appeared as plate XVI in Talbot's seminal publication The Pencil of Nature,1844-46.

From Sotheby's, London, in 2000; to a Private Collector.