Photographs by Adamson, Llewelyn, Archer and unknown

Title

Photographs by Adamson, Llewelyn, Archer and unknown

Shelfmark

MS. WHF Talbot photogr. 7

Summary

Comprises photographs sent to or collected by Talbot:

Salt print from a calotype negative by Dr John or Robert Adamson of the Chapel of St Salvator's College, St Andrews, titled in ink on verso, 1842

Salt print from a calotype negative by Dr John Adamson, 'Part of Sir D.B.'s House' with a shadow image (a piece of string?) on recto, and inscribed in pencil on verso by Harold White, n.d.

Albumen print attributed to John Dillwyn Llewelyn, leaves in front of a fence, 1850s

Albumen print attributed to John Dillwyn Llewelyn, waterfall in a wooded scene, 1850s

Salt print from a calotype negative attributed to John Dillwyn Llewelyn, still life of a potted plant sitting on the book Views in Wales, n.d.

Empty glassine envelope from Harold White with a typed label 'Prints by Dr. John Adamson of St. Andrews', [20th century]

Albumen print from a wet collodion negative by Frederick Scott Archer, castle ruins (with lens vignetting), 'No 9' in pencil on verso and 'Archer' in [William Henry Fox Talbot's?] hand in pencil on verso, mid 1850s

Albumen print from a wet collodion negative by Frederick Scott Archer, interior cathedral or abbey doorway, '46' in pencil on verso and 'Archer' in [William Henry Fox Talbot's?] hand in pencil on verso, n.d.

Albumen print from a wet collodion negative by Frederick Scott Archer, castle ruins, 'No 4' in pencil on verso and 'Archer' in [William Henry Fox Talbot's hand?] in pencil on verso, n.d.

Albumen print from a wet collodion negative by Frederick Scott Archer, castle ruins in Kenilworth, with two men conversing in the roadway, 'No 3' in pencil on verso and 'Archer' in [William Henry Fox Talbot's?] hand in pencil on the verso, n.d.

Albumen print from a wet collodion negative by an unknown photographer (possibly Frederick Scott Archer), Bridge of Sighs, Cambridge, n.d.

Albumen print by an unknown photographer of a fragment of a carved plaque, inscribed in pencil (with ink corrections) on verso: 'Photograph in 1856 of a fragment found at Cotehele (Cornwall) the old seat of the Edgcumbes, this head evidently an Assyrian or Phoenician one confirms the tradition that the last people came in Cornwall for the traffick of the tin mines'. Possible faint trace of initials in negative lower right, 1856

Lightly waxed [salt or platinum?] print by an unknown photographer of a woman sitting on a path in front of a barn, n.d.

Albumen print from a wet collodion negative by an unknown photographer, an unidentified Oxbridge college, n.d.

Albumen print by [Sir William Crookes?] of [crystal patterns?], n.d.

Date

1842-1856, n.d.

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box