William Henry Fox Talbot, A Scene in a Library, 1844 - the whole salted paper sheet shown flat on white

William Henry Fox Talbot – A Scene in a Library, 1844 | Giclée Print

40 × 30 cm / 15.7 × 11.8 in — Original size, 1:1
CHF 49.00
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William Henry Fox Talbot, A Scene in a Library, 1844 - the whole salted paper sheet shown flat on white
  • William Henry Fox Talbot, A Scene in a Library, 1844 - the whole salted paper sheet shown flat on white
  • Talbot, A Scene in a Library — the 40 × 30 cm print hung above an oak sideboard
  • Detail at printed size — the lettered spines on Talbot's shelf
  • The 40 x 30 cm sheet lying flat, A Scene in a Library printed at original size with wide white margins
  • Scale diagram: the 40 × 30 cm sheet hung 25 cm above a 140 cm sideboard, printed image area 24 × 19 cm
  • William Henry Fox Talbot, A Scene in a Library, 1844 - the whole salted paper sheet shown flat on white
  • Talbot, A Scene in a Library — the 40 × 30 cm print hung above an oak sideboard
  • Detail at printed size — the lettered spines on Talbot's shelf
  • The 40 x 30 cm sheet lying flat, A Scene in a Library printed at original size with wide white margins
  • Scale diagram: the 40 × 30 cm sheet hung 25 cm above a 140 cm sideboard, printed image area 24 × 19 cm
William Henry Fox Talbot – A Scene in a Library, 1844 | Giclée Print

William Henry Fox Talbot – A Scene in a Library, 1844 | Giclée Print

CHF 49.00
Size40 × 30 cm / 15.7 × 11.8 in — Original size, 1:1

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Two shelves of books, photographed in daylight in 1844, when a photograph of anything at all was a rarity. The spines are legible enough to read the gilding on them. Talbot put the plate in The Pencil of Nature, the first commercially published book illustrated with photographs, and wrote beside it a note about invisible rays and the idea that a camera might one day record what the eye cannot see.

What this is. A giclée reproduction of a salted paper print, made with pigment inks. Not an original photograph; Talbot's are in museums.

Scale
Original: image 13.3 × 18 cm / 5.2 × 7.1 in on a sheet of about 19 × 24 cm
40 × 30 cm / 15.7 × 11.8 in — Original size, 1:1. Sheet reproduced 23.75 × 19.37 cm.

The print
Giclée on 200 gsm FSC-certified fine art paper, twelve pigment inks. White border, optical centre. The paper tone of the original is kept, not corrected. Unframed. Shipped rolled in a tube.

Provenance
William Henry Fox Talbot (British, 1800–1877), A Scene in a Library, before 22 March 1844; salted paper print from a paper negative, image 13.3 × 18 cm.

Where this comes from
The museum file, the measurements, and what we are allowed to sell: the record for this sheet.

Further reading
Why This Print Is Not Bigger

The record behind this sheet — which impression we chose and why, what we measured, what we are allowed to sell, and the framing dimensions for this sheet.

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