David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, “Edinburgh Ale: James Ballantine, Dr George Bell and David Octavius Hill” (1843–47), calotype print (courtesy Scottish National Portrait Gallery) Although Hill ...
William Henry Fox Talbot, the British scientist and inventor, who was born in 1800, was a polymath, well-versed in subjects from botany to the classics, which he studied at Cambridge University. But ...
The invention of the camera is usually attributed to Frenchman Louis Daguerre - who was first to announce his invention in 1839, and gave his name to the first popular form of photograph – the ...
STUDY OF A MARBLE BUST, c.1840s, Salt paper print from a calotype negative, image size, 162 x 126mm, mounted onto contemporary paper support, with hand drawn borders, with 'Patent Talbotype or Sun ...
The calotype, familiarly explained : being a treatise on its objects and uses, and the methods of preparing the sensitive paper, and taking pictures by the agency of light / by W. Raleigh Baxter ...
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