Talbot and botany : the Bertoloni album

Author

Smith, Graham

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

History of photography. 1993, Num. 1, Vol. 17, 33-48, 10 ill.

ISSN

0308-7298

Abstract (en)

On Talbot's effort to make his invention of negative-positive paper photography known and to illustrate its potential utility to botanists by sending 36 photogenic drawings to the Bolognese botanist Antonio Bertoloni in 1839 and 1840; includes a checklist of the photographs in the Bertoloni album (New York, Metropolitan Museum).

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945 -- Pictorial arts -- Photography -- United Kingdom
• Talbot, William Henry Fox, 1800-1877
• Photography
• Great Britain
• 1800-1900
• Illustration
• Botany
• Bertoloni, Antonio, 1775-1869
• Collections
• Metropolitan Museum of Art||New York (NY, USA)

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945 -- Peinture et arts graphiques -- Photographie -- Royaume-Uni
• Talbot, William Henry Fox, 1800-1877
• Photographie
• Grande-Bretagne
• 1800-1900
• Illustration
• Botanique
• Bertoloni, Antonio, 1775-1869
• Collections
• Metropolitan Museum of Art||New York (NY, USA)

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19940401-00340385

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