Horatia Gaisford's Collection of Talbot Photographic Materials and Ephemera | Manuscripts and Archives at Oxford University

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Title

Horatia Gaisford's Collection of Talbot Photographic Materials and Ephemera

Shelfmark

MS. 21088 photogr. 1-5; MS. 21088/1; Mus. 305 c.14

Summary

Gaisford-St Lawrence Collection of Talbots: Horatia Gaisford's Collection of Photographs and Ephemera.

Date

1835-1848

Language

French

Latin

English

Physical extent

0.75 Linear metres

Custodial history

William Henry Davenport Talbot married Lady Elisabeth Fox-Strangways and their son, William Henry Fox Talbot, was born in 1800. Lady Elizabeth was later widowed and remarried to Captain Charles Fielding, with whom she had two daughters. One of these daughters, (Henrietta) Horatia Maria, was the first owner of the materials which form this collection. Horatia married Thomas Gaisford in 1850 and died the following year, following the birth of their first son. Thomas was the son of Thomas Gaisford (1779-1855), Dean of Christ Church, Oxford. The Gaisfords married into the St Lawrence family, the ancestral Earls of Howth in Ireland. The St Lawrence line ended in 1909 and the Gaisfords succeeded that title and Howth castle, where the collection materials were kept. Julian Gaisford St Lawrence sold the castle in or around 2019. At some point the collection moved to Sotheby's New York and was sold to the current owner at auction on 21 April 2021.

Acquisition

The collection was placed at the Bodleian Libraries in 2021.

Subject

Photograph collections

Photography -- History -- 19th century

19th century

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