Oct 21, 2021 - Sale 2583

Sale 2583 - Lot 5

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
WILLIAM HENRY FOX TALBOT (1800-1877)
The Hungerford Suspension Bridge, London * A fruit piece with a single pineapple. Salt print and salt print from calotype negative, the images measuring 6 5/8x8 3/8 and 5 3/4x7 1/2 inches (16.8x21.3 and 14.6x19.1 cm.), the sheets 7 1/4x9 inches (18.4x22.9 cm.). Circa 1845 and before 1845

Additional Details

The Hungerford Suspension Bridge, London is from the Collection of André Jammes.

Larry Schaaf, The Talbot Catalogue Raisoné, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, nos. 1219 and 1503.

Hambourg and Apraxine, The Waking Dream: Photography's First Century (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), p. 267, pl. 8.

Lassam, Fox Talbot: Photographer (Compton Press), unpaginated.