Henry Fox Talbot
1840 (ca)
Photomicrograph of three crystals - study of polarized light

Calotype negative
2 13/32 x 2 7/32 ins (6.1 x 5.6 cm)
 
National Science and Media Museum
W.H.F. Talbot Collection, 1937-2512, Schaaf 1477
 
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/45413