Sale 2458 - Art & Storytelling: Photographs & Photobooks, October 19, 2017

18 18 c WILLIAM HENRY FOX TALBOT (1800-1877) The Hungerford Suspension Bridge. Salted paper print from a calotype negative, the image measuring 6 5 / 8 x8 1 / 4 inches (16.8x21 cm.), the sheet 7 3 / 4 x9 3 / 4 inches (19.7x24.8 cm.), with the notation LA 251, in ink, in an unknown hand, on verso. 1842 [6,000/9,000] From Lacock Abbey and directly from a descendant of Matilda Talbot; to Robert Hershkowitz Limited; to Charles Schwartz, in 1989; to a Private Collector, in 2009. Hambourg and Apraxine, The Waking Dream: Photography’s First Century (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), p. 267, pl. 8. Schaaf, The Photographic Art of William Henry Fox Talbot (Princeton University Press), p. 217. Lassam, Fox Talbot: Photographer (Compton Press), unpaginated. 19 c WILLIAM HENRY FOX TALBOT (1800-1877) The Cloisters of Lacock Abbey. Salted paper print from a calotype negative, the image measuring 6 1 / 2 x8 1 / 2 inches (16.5x21.6 cm.), the sheet 7 1 / 2 x9 3 / 8 inches (19.1x23.8 cm.), with the numeric notation LA 16, in ink, on verso. Circa 1844 [3,000/4,500] This image appeared as plate XVI in Talbot’s seminal publication The Pencil of Nature, 1844-46. From Sotheby’s, London, in 2000; to a Private Collector. 20 c DAVID OCTAVIUS HILL (1802-1870) & ROBERT ADAMSON (1821-1848) A view of St. Andrews. Salted paper print from a calotype negative, the image measuring 7 3 / 4 x6 1 / 8 inches (19.7x15.6 cm.), the sheet 8 1 / 4 x6 5 / 8 inches (21x16.8 cm.). Circa 1845 [1,500/2,500] From Sotheby’s London, in 1999; to a Private Collector.