Title(s)

Fotoreproducties van twee foto's door William Henry Fox Talbot
Two of Fox-Talbot's original photographs (title on object)

Object type

• photomechanical print

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-462-4

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘Fox-Talbot invented the method of taking negatives from which any number of positives may be produced. The photographs reproduced above were taken on paper negatives, which were waxed afterwards so that the possitive might be printed through them. The upper illustration was from life. The other was a copy of a French engraving. (See chap. iii.)’

Description

Boven drie mannen bij een huis met een ladder, onder een fotoreproductie van een prent van Louis Léopold Boilly met 35 hoofden.

Artist

• anonymous
• print maker: anonymous
• after photo by: William Henry Fox Talbot
• after print by: Louis-Léopold Boilly

Dating

c. 1898 - in or before 1908

Material

• paper

Measurements

height 192 mm × width 120 mm

What

• ladder
• print, e.g.: engraving, etching, lithograph

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• The romance of modern photography its discovery and its achievements (RP-F-2001-7-462)