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 calotype however was regarded as a cultured gentleman’s pursuit - an activity for the leisured classes. Chosen for their aesthetic and historical qualities, the majority of these photographs have ...

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 ...

HANS P. KRAUS JR 962 Park Avenue at 82nd Street 10028 New York États-Unis An exhibition of early work by William Henry Fox Talbot, the inventor of the photographic negative, will be on view at Hans P.