William Henry Fox Talbot - The Odyssey of Collecting: Photographs from Joy of Giving Something Foundation New York Tuesday, October 3, 2017 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Christie's, London, 3 May 1995, lot 34

  • Literature

    Talbot, The Pencil of Nature, pl. XX, variant
    Gray, Ollman and McCusker, First Photographs: William Henry Fox Talbot and the Birth of Photography, p. 82, variant

95

Lace

before February 1845
Unique photogenic drawing negative.
6 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. (17.1 x 22.2 cm)
Numbered '20' in an unidentified hand in ink on the mount; annotated 'LA20' in an unidentified hand in ink on the reverse of the mount.

Estimate
$8,000 - 12,000 

Sold for $8,125

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The Odyssey of Collecting: Photographs from Joy of Giving Something Foundation

New York 3 October 2017