A Scene in a Library
[The Pencil of Nature, Part 2, pl. 8]
1844 (published)
Calotype
Hans P. Kraus, Jr., Inc.
Taken from the reproductions in Larry J. Schaaf, H. Fox Talbot's The Pencil of Nature; Anniversary Facsimile (New York: Hans P. Kraus, Jr. Inc., 1989). The originals selected for this publication were the best single examples available for each plate. Not to be reproduced without permission of H.P. Kraus, Jr.
LL/18325 [Further details available]
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A Scene in a Library, plate VIII from the Pencil of Nature
[Pencil of Nature]
1844-1846
Salt print, from paper negative
13.2 x 17.8 cm (5 3/16 x 7 ins) (image) 13.2 x 17.8 cm (5 3/16 x 7 ins) (sheet)
Yale University Art Gallery
Gift of George Hopper Fitch, B.A. 1932, 1989.12.13
LL/88671
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A Scene in a Library
1844, 22 March (before)
Salted paper print, from glass negative
13.3 x 18 cm (5 1/4 x 7 1/16 ins )
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005, Accession Number: 2005.100.172
LL/40475
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‘Bookcase'; library shelves with Dresden china
1839, 26 November
Salt print, from photogenic drawing negative
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gilman Paper Company Collection, Schaaf 2319
LL/60421
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Detail of books at Lacock Abbey
1840, 28 November
Salt print, from calotype negative
National Science and Media Museum
1937-1580; Schaaf 2531
LL/62645 [Further details available]
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Textbooks, Dartmouth College
1860
Albumen print
5 3/4 x 8 in.
Archive Farms
The Patrick Montgomery Collection, Object No. 2016.351
LL/114259
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[Still Life with Books]
1870s-1880s
Albumen silver print, from glass negative
16.8 x 21.6 cm (6 5/8 x 8 1/2 ins) (image) 20.3 x 24.1 cm (8 x 9 1/2 ins) (mount)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gilman Collection, Joyce F. Menschel Photography Library Fund, 2005, Accession Number: 2005.100.564
LL/40451
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Still life
1880
Albumen print
10 x 13.7 cm
Victoria and Albert Museum
Accession number: 79790
LL/120108 [Further details available]
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1898
Album page
Dominic Winter Book Auctions
Photography: The First 150 Years, 9 March 2018, Lot: 9
LL/82010
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Bibliophilie
1947
Tirage au charbon
26.5 x 50 cm (image) ; 29 x 51.5 cm (Úpreuve)
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Estampes et de la Photographie
LL/7030
10 of 17
Two "miraculous" bibles in the synagogue [Jews. Georgia, Khashursky municipality, pos. Surami]
1929
Photograph
Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography. Peter the Great (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Museum number: MAE I 1785-398
LL/100727
11 of 17
Six Dictionaries
2000
Gelatin silver print
20 x 24
Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery
LL/2657
12 of 17
Shiny Books
2000
Silver print
32 x 40 1/4 in (81.3 x 102.2 cm)
Swann Galleries - New York
Courtesy of Swann Galleries (Auction, Oct 15, 2007, #2124, Lot 174)
LL/23209 [Further details available]
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Two Tall Books
2002
Gelatin silver print
20 x 24
Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery
LL/2658
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Manos y libros [Hands and books]
1927
Gelatin silver print
18 x 17 cm (image) 30 x 23.5 cm (sheet)
Soler y LLach
Photographs and Photobooks Auction, 7 June 2012, Lot: 94
LL/48091
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Book and Shadow, New York
1974 (taken) 1981 (print)
Gelatin silver print
9 11/16 × 6 1/2 ins (24.61 × 16.51 cm)
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Gift of Susan and Peter MacGill, Object number: 2015.64.1.1
LL/81141 [Further details available]
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Smallest Book at the British Museum, London
1931
Gelatin silver print
E.O. Hoppé Collection
LL/80557
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1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981
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| Laure Albin-Guillot | |
| Isabel Agnes Cowper | |
| E.O. Hoppé | |
| André Kertész | |
| Abelardo Morell | |
| William Notman | |
| Henry Fox Talbot | |
| George K. Warren |
Contents - Themes & Fragments