File:William Henry Fox Talbot, Carriages and Parisian Townhouses - Getty Museum.jpg

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William Henry Fox Talbot: Alternate Title: Carriages and Parisian Townhouses Display Title : Boulevard des Italiens, Paris Boulevard des Capucines, Paris, according to http://vergue.com/post/60/Talbot-The-Boulevards-of-Paris-1843.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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William Henry Fox Talbot  (1800–1877)  wikidata:Q299565 s:en:Author:William Henry Fox Talbot q:it:William Fox Talbot
 
William Henry Fox Talbot
Description British photographer
Date of birth/death 11 February 1800 Edit this at Wikidata 17 September 1877 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Melbury, Dorset, England Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire, England
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London; England Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q299565
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Alternate Title: Carriages and Parisian Townhouses
Display Title : Boulevard des Italiens, Paris Boulevard des Capucines, Paris, according to http://vergue.com/post/60/Talbot-The-Boulevards-of-Paris-1843.
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English: In May 1843 William Henry Fox Talbot went to Paris with his assistant Nicolaas Henneman. A year later, with Talbot's support, Henneman established the first photographic printing firm in Reading, England. They traveled to France to negotiate the licensing rights for Talbot's calotype process and to instruct the licensee in its use. This was Talbot's first trip outside of England with his camera, and he was undoubtedly eager to put it to good use.
This view outside of an elegant Parisian townhouse shows an active scene. The carriage driver and horses wait curbside, poised to carry passengers to their destination, and the line of arriving and departing carriages rolling across the bottom of the picture suggests a busy boulevard. The calotype's clarity of detail is superb, rivaling that of the daguerreotype, France's homegrown photographic medium and the calotype's chief competition.
Date May 1843
date QS:P571,+1843-05-00T00:00:00Z/10
Medium Salt print from a calotype negative
Dimensions Image: 16.8 x 17.3 cm (6 5/8 x 6 13/16 in.), Sheet: 19.1 x 23 cm (7 1/2 x 9 1/16 in.), Mat: 36.2 x 48.9 cm (14 1/4 x 19 1/4 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q29247
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84.XM.478.6
Inscriptions Inscr. vo. print in ink in the hand of Ostroff: "LA777".
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The Getty Center, Object 46631

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