Lot 66
  • 66

William Henry Fox Talbot

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • William Henry Fox Talbot
  • High Street, Oxford, c. 1845
  • Salt print
  • 18cm by 20cm
Salt paper print. With the Lacock Abbey numbering LA113 by Eugene Ostroff. Mounted and framed.

Provenance

Sotheby's, Photographic Images and Related Material, London 28 June 1985, lot 88

Literature

Huellas de Luz, El Arte y los Experimentos de William Henry Fox Talbot, Madrid, Muséo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 2001, ill. p. 211.

Condition

This print is in excellent condition. With a very faint, small discoloured spot (approx. 5mm) to the left of the centre of the image.
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