05-03-200505-03-2005
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsBolton MA
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May 3, 2005 10:00 AMCalender
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The Art-Union

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Auction: Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments - 2283Location: BoltonDate / Time: May 03, 2005 10:00AM

Description:

The Art-Union, Vol. III, 1846 twelve issues in one volume, seventeen engraved plates (two colored, two folding),frontispiece, index, article "The Talbotype - Sun Pictures" and 4 1/2 x 6 in. pasted-in calotype print, in later red cloth covers.

Note: An improvement upon Henry Fox Talbot's process of photogenic drawing, the calotype was the first negative photographic process. It was evolved in 1840 after experiments over several years, and patented in 1841. The calotype negative was suited (whereas the daguerreotype was not) to making salted paper prints for large-scale reproduction in publications, such as Art Union or Fox Talbot's own works The Pencil of Nature and Sun Pictures in Scotland. The article speculates that "the date of the announcement of Daguerre's discovery (January 1839),being five years after the commencement of the labors of Mr. Talbot , makes it sufficiently clear that, had Daguerre's researches been unsuccessful, the discovery of this other branch of photography had still been secured to the world by those of Mr. Talbot - since the inventions are altogether independent of each other."V1846
Estimate $1,000-1,500

Keywords

Henry Fox Talbot, Art Union, Scotland