Henry Fox Talbot
1851 (ca)
Photomicrograph of interference pattern - study of polarized light through crystals

Albumenized paper print
2 5/16 x 2 5/16 ins (5.9 x 5.9 cm)
 
National Science and Media Museum
W.H.F. Talbot Collection, 1937-2511/1, Schaaf 5055
 
Probably a collaboration with William Crookes - Dr. Kelley Wilder , 8 June 2018, Observing by Polarisation, The Talbot Catalogue Raisonné - blog (Accessed: 8 June 2018)
 
Published in "Specimens and Marvels: William Henry Fox Talbot and the Invention of Photography", Aperture, Winter 2000, Issue: 161, p.16
 
LL/45414