The Oriel Window, South Gallery, Lacock Abbey, photogenic drawing negative, 3 1/4 x 4 3/16 in. (8.3 x 10.7 cm), The Rubel Collection, National Museum of Photography, Film, and Television in Bradford.
«The Pencil of Nature» - by Henry Fox Talbot The photograph of a porcelain collection comes from the famous, first book on the history of photography, «The Pencil of Nature» (1844 – 1846), in which Henry Fox Talbot, inventor of the negative-positive process, reflects various applications of the new medium and presents them using photographic examples. Regarding this particular example, he states: «[...] And should a thief afterwards purloin the treasures – if the mute testimony of the picture were to be produced against him in court – it would certainly be evidence of a novel kind […]» (William Henry Fox Talbot, The Pencil of Nature, Reprint New York 1969). Talbot also emphasizes that photography is capable of depicting every object and their details with the same degree of precision. It can therefore function as a way of securing an archive’s inventory.
Lot Description WILLIAM HENRY FOX TALBOT (1800-1877) Sun Pictures in Scotland London, 1845. 23 calotypes, bound into a large 4to volume; each with plate number (on the mount); varying sizes from 6 3/8 x 7Вѕin. (16.1 x 19.8cm.) to 3Вј x 4ВЅin. (8.5 x 10.7cm.); inscribed 'Burdett-Coutts..., 1913' and 'The first Discovery of the Art' in ink, stamped 'A Tarrant, Binder, Great Queen Street' and Burdett-Coutts collection label, bearing the family initials and coat-of-arms, affixed (on the front pastedown); 'Notice to the Reader' bound (in front endpaper); inscribed '...Burdett-Coutts..., 1913' in ink (on the title page)
Miss Horatia Feilding, half sister of W. H. F. Talbot. A so called
A so called
Westbound view from a window of the hotel
Westbound view from a window of the hotel
Photographic studio of Nicolaas Henneman in Reading, England. A so called
Collection of (National Media Museum (William Henry Fox Talbot, 1800-1877, From 'Sun Pictures in Scotland' published in 1845)
SS Great Britain fitting out in Cumberland Basin, April 1844. This photograph of Great Britain taken by pioneering photographer William Henry Fox Talbot is not only the first taken of Great Britain, but also believed to be the first photograph ever taken of a ship.
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Window in the South Gallery of Lacock Abbey made from the oldest photographic negative in existence.
“Fruit-Sellers” (circa 1845) attributed to William Henry Fox Talbot Metropolitan Museum of Art
Westbound view from a window of the hotel
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William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (June 17, 1800 – October 31, 1867) was an Irish astronomer.
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Drawing of spiral galaxy M99
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Drawing of the Crab Nebula
Liverpool
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Ronald Ross Ronald Ross, one of the discoverers of the malaria parasite.
Ronald Ross, winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine
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The 'Gate of Commemoration' of SSKM hospital at AJC Bose road, Kolkata, formarly known as Presidency General Hospital, Calcutta was unvailed by Sir Ronald Ross on 7th January, 1927.
Fourth Solvay Conference, Brussels, 1924, the theme was the electrical conductivity of metals.
Owen Willans Richardson
Niels Bohr (up), Owen Willans Richardson (down) Solvay Conference 1927
Photograph of a portrait of the young Richard Owen
The vertebrate archetype of Richard Owen
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The fragmentary skull of Thylacoleo from Owen’s paper “On the Fossil Mammals of Australia. Part I. …”
Archaeopteryx
biologist Richard Owen (1804-1892)
English anatomist, zoologist and palaeontologist Richard Owen, around 1880
Portrait of English anatomist and palaeontologist Richard Owen. Albumen print from wet collodion on glass negative, 1856.
Richard Owen, English anatomist
The photo shows Sir Richard Owen (1804–1892). He was a leading British anatomist, biologist, and palaeontolgist and errected the taxon
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Diagram of geologic timescale circa 1861
Photograph of Richard Owen in old age
Photograph of a wood engraving from Illustrated London News
Skeleton of Kiwi
Portrait of Professor Richard Owen, comparative anatomist, Woodburytype, 9.7 x 7.1 in (247 mm x 180 mm)
Richard Owen, who became director of London’s Museum of Natural History, was the first to recognise that a bone fragment he was shown in 1839 came from a large bird. When later sent collections of bird bones, he managed to reconstruct moa skeletons. In this photograph, published in 1879, he stands next to the largest of all moa, Dinornis giganteus (robustus), while holding the first bone fragment he had examined 40 years earlier.
Osborne Reynolds
Undina gulo
Pylocheles miersii
Psalidopus huxleyi
Reconstruction of Pleuracanthus (synonym of Xenacanthus) decheni
The portrait painted by John Cooke in 1915. Back row: (left to right) F. O. Barlow, G. Elliot Smith, Charles Dawson, Arthur Smith Woodward. Front row: A. S. Underwood, Arthur Keith, W. P. Pycraft, and Sir Ray Lankester. Note the painting of Charles Darwin on the wall.
Neolithodes grimaldii
Mesolepis scalaris
Eiconaxius andamanensis
Heterocarpus dorsalis
Fish shapes and fin structures
Eggs and egg-cases of fishes. (From Dean.) A, Bdellostoma, egg-case; B, upper pale of the same showing hooks and microphyle (after Ayers); C, Myxine (after Steenstrup); D, a process of the same; E, Petromyzon marinus; F, Scyllium (after GГјnther); G, Raja; H, Heterodontus (After GГјnther); I, Callorhynchus (After GГјunther); J, Ceratodus (After Semon); K. Lepidosteus; L, Acipenser; M, Arius, showing larva (after GГјnther); N, Serranus; O, Alosa; P, Blennius, egg capsules attached; Q, the same enlarged (after Guitel).
Edwin Ray Lankester
Birgus latro, Robber Crab
Amia calva head
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Description: Penrose's signature. Rationale: Under United States Copyright Law, signatures are not eligible for copyright, as they are
Oxford Physicist Roger Penrose to Speak at Brookhaven Lab, Feb. 6, 2007
Familiengrab Mitscherlich Wilhelmshaven - Neuende
Eilhard Mitscherlich
Monument to Eilhard Mitscherlich. The monument is near Humboldt university and it was created by Carl Ferdinand Hartzer in 1894.
Statue of Eilhard Mitscherlich in front of the east wing of the main building of Humboldt University in Berlin-Mitte. The memorial was created in 1894 by Carl Ferdinand Hartzer. It has been designated as a historic landmark.
Eilhard Mitscherlich (1794 - 1863), French chemist, Sheet: 29 x 21.2 cm
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portrait of Gideon A. Mantell (1790-1852), English paleontologist
Thomas Maclear (1794-1879), Astronomer Royal at Cape of Good Hope
Mary Maclear, wife of Thomas Maclear (1794-1879), Astronomer Royal at Cape of Good Hope
Scanned Page 242 of The Popular Science Monthly Volume 1
Salient angle
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Image of the Mount Lyell group in California
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Fault
Portrait of Charles Lyell(1797-1875), Scottish lawyer, geologist
Portrait of Sir Charles Lyell (1797—1875).
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Pillars of the temple at Pozzuoli (Italy) used by Lyell to show former sea level differing from today. The corroded part at each pillar has once been below sea level. This higher sea level obviously is after the temple was built and was caused by downwarp and uplift of the land surface as a result of volcanic activity.
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Anticlinal, synclinal axis.
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John Lindley (1799-1865)
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Types fo flowers. Page 127 of An introduction to botany by John Lindley etc. Second edition, with corrections and numerous additions. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1835. 833 pp.
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Picture of James Joule
Engraving of James Joule
Apparatus of James P. Joule for the measurement of the mechanical equivalent of heat.
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Joule's gravestone
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Pencil, 330 x 254mm (13 x 10
Pencil, detail of original 330 x 254mm (13 x 10
Sir John Herschel with Cap (detail). 33.5 x 28.0 cm.
Roberts Quartet is a family of four very different galaxies, located at a distance of about 160 million light-years, close to the centre of the southern constellation of the Phoenix. Its members are NGC 87, NGC 88, NGC 89 and NGC 92, discovered by John Herschel in the 1830s. NGC 87 (upper right) is an irregular galaxy similar to the satellites of our Milky Way, the Magellanic Clouds. NGC 88 (centre) is a spiral galaxy with an external diffuse envelope, most probably composed of gas. NGC 89 (lower middle) is another spiral galaxy with two large spiral arms. The largest member of the system, NGC 92 (left), is a spiral Sa galaxy with an unusual appearance. One of its arms, about 100,000 light-years long, has been distorted by interactions and contains a large quantity of dust. ID: phot-34a-05 Press: 34/05 Object: NGC 87, NGC 88, NGC 89, NGC 92 Credit: ESO
From the NASA press release:
Margaret Herschel (Margaret Brodie Stewart) (1810-1864) wife of John Herschel, astronomer
Sir John Herschel (1867) / print by A.L. Coburn, ca. 1915, from copy negative of original print platinum print, tinted stock, mechanically varnished 25.7 x 19.4 cm.
Previously unseen details of a mysterious, complex structure within the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) are revealed by this image of the
Title page from one volume of Dionysius Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia
Advertisement and prospects from Dionysius Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia
John Frederick William Herschel (1792-1871), astronomer
Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet KH, FRS (March 7, 1792 – May 11, 1871) [2] was an English mathematician, astronomer, chemist, and experimental photographer/inventor, who in some years also did valuable botanical work.[2] He was the son of astronomer Sir William Herschel and the father of 12 children.[2]
Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet KH, FRS (March 7, 1792 – May 11, 1871) [2] was an English mathematician, astronomer, chemist, and experimental photographer/inventor, who in some years also did valuable botanical work.[2] He was the son of astronomer Sir William Herschel and the father of 12 children.[2]
Sketch of Sir John Frederick William Herschel (1792-1871) done by his daughter Margaret Louisa Herschel. National Maritime Museum. Author died 1861.
An experimental cyanotype of an engraving of a lady with a harp, by Sir John Herschel (1792-1871), 1842.
Original ilustration Paul-Dominique Philippoteaux to novel J. Verne
Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet KH (March 7, 1792–May 11, 1871) was an English mathematician, astronomer, chemist, and experimental photographer/inventor
Negative image of an engraving of a lady by Sir John Herschel (1792-1871), 5th August, 1839, fixed with hypo.
An experimental cyanotype of an engraving of a lady with a harp, by Sir John Herschel (1792-1871), 1842. Herschel invented the cyanotype or 'blueprint' in 1842, employing iron salts (ferric ammonium citrate and potassium ferricyanide) which produce Prussian blue under the action of light. It was a simple process to use and required only water as a fixative. The cyanotype was the only first-generation photographic technique to find any lasting use.
the very first photograph to be taken on glass. It was taken by Sir John Herschel in 1839, and shows his father's telescope in Slough, near London. (Science Museum, London).
the very first photograph to be taken on glass. It was taken by Sir John Herschel in 1839, and shows his father's telescope in Slough, near London. (Science Museum, London). Computer-generated positive of Herschel's negative image of the telescope at Slough.
the very first photograph to be taken on glass. It was taken by Sir John Herschel in 1839, and shows his father's telescope in Slough, near London. the family 48 inch telescope in Slough, just before it was demolished in 1839. (Science Museum, London).
Sir John Herschel.
Disa cornuta (L.) Sw. (1800)
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HMS Rattlesnake
Thomas Henry Huxley
Young Huxley RN at 21; daguerrotype
Richard Owen and Thomas Henry Huxley examining a water-baby
Portrait of Thomas Henry Huxley (1825—1895).
Gravestone of Thomas Henry Huxley. Personal photo from 1986; no rights claimed
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825 - 1895)
Thomas Huxley, coiner of the term agnostic.
Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley by Marian Collier (nГ©e Huxley) pencil 7 1/2 in. x 5 in. (191 mm x 127 mm) Purchased, 1943
The image is of a print depicting a caricature of T H Huxley, it also appeared in Vanity fair, the 19C english publication. A inferior version also appear at wikipedia en:Image:HuxleyVanityFair.jpg and the detail there states
chromolithograph of THH in Vanity Fair
Huxley at about 55, scanned & cropped slightly
Huxley at 32; photo. Bibby's title for this one is 'the Young Eagle'.
Photo of Thomas Henry Huxley with sketch of gorilla skull.
photo of Huxley
photo of TH Huxley by W&D Downey
Huxley’s original illustration of the fossil of an ankle bone from the penguine Palaeeudyptes antarcticus described in 1859.
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Thomas, Leonard & Julian Huxley
Sir William Huggins, by John Collier (died 1934), given to the National Portrait Gallery, London in 1912. See source website for additional information.
Sir William Huggins (1824-1910)
William Huggins' direct comparison spectroscope, with enlargement showing comparison prism fixed on the slit
Comparison of visible magnesium spectrum with that of Orion nebula
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Illustration of Zamia wallisii
Illustration of Zamia obliqua
Illustration of Xanthoceras sorbifolia
Illustration of Trochetia blackburniana
Illustration of Trochetia blackburniana
Illustration of Treculia africana
Magnolia hodgsonii (syn. Talauma hodgsonii). Original caption:
Illustration of Tacca pinnatifida
Illustration of Tacca pinnatifida
Joseph Dalton Hooker on Page 140 of The Popular Science Monthly Volume 4
Illustration of Rosa gigantea
Rheum nobile. Original caption:
Cyclobalanopsis lamellosa (syn. Quercus lamellosa).
Illustration of Psychotria capensis
Illustration of Psychotria capensis
Illustration of Paphiopedilum mastersianum
Illustration of Orthosiphon stamineus
Illustration of Orchidantha maxillarioides (Orig. Lowia maxillarioides)
Illustration of Olearia insignis
Illustration of Nardostachys grandiflora
Illustration of Narcissus cyclamineus
Meconopsis simplicifolia. Original caption:
Meconopsis nepalensis syn. Meconopsis napaulensis. Original caption:
Magnolia campbellii leaves and seeds. Original caption:
Magnolia campbellii flowers. Original caption:
Illustration of Lilium grayi
Larix griffithii. Original caption:
Illustration of Fritillaria sewerzowii (syn. Korolkowia sewerzowii)
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Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
Illustration of Idesia polycarpa
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Hodgsonia heteroclita male plant
Fruit of Hodgsonia heteroclita
Hodgsonia heteroclita female plant
Illustration of Gustavia gracillima
Illustration of Fuchsia triphylla
Illustration of Eccremocarpus scaber
Illustration of Eccremocarpus scaber
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