Drawings
MS. WHF Talbot 42
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Drawings
Shelfmark
MS. WHF Talbot 42
Summary
Comprises:
eight unattributed chromolithograph drawings [produced as a set?] comprising three drawings of two plants and five drawings of coral, [1820s-1830s]. Talbot has annotated one of the drawings of the two plants 'only give the part enclosed in the pencil line, & all bright green the same part in the lower figure, all bright red', n.d.
three pencil and watercolour drawings of crystals [by Talbot and his wife Constance Talbot?], [post-1833]
pen and ink drawing with washes of shells of the Paris basin by unidentified artist with labels in Talbot's hand, n.d.
pen and ink drawing with washes of natural history specimens from Yorkshire [by or collected by Talbot?], n.d.
experiments with watercolours on 'Whatman's Rough Imperial paper' with notes by Talbot, n.d.
Date
[1820s-1830s], n.d.
Language
English
Physical extent
1 box
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Collection contents
Archive of William Henry Fox Talbot and the Talbot family
Papers of William Henry Fox Talbot
Drawings
Drawings
