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LL/65621
Charles Piazzi Smyth
1856
Teneriffe Experiment of 1856

Photoglyphed copper plate
National Science and Media Museum
Inventory no: 1937-5050
 
"Subject of Plate 1 repeated but from a different original negative and printed in ink from a photoglyphed copper plate prepared and presented by H. Fox Talbot, Esq."
 
Charles Piazzi Smyth, Astronomical Observations Made at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, vol. XII1, 1855-1859 (Edinburgh: Neill and Co., 1863).
 
Larry Schaaf, “Piazzi Smyth at Teneriffe: Part 2, Photography and the Disciples of Constable and Harding,” History of Photography, v. 5 no. 1, January 1981, pp. 27-50.
 
Musings from the Margins: Aphnodium from Gogar (William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné)
26th February 2016 by Larry J Schaaf
foxtalbot.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/musings-from-the-margins-aphnodium-from-gogar/
 
LL/65621


 

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