William Henry Fox Talbot

LOT 44 WILLIAM HENRY FOX TALBOT 1800-1877 A STANZA FROM 'ODE TO NAPOLEON' IN LORD BYRON'S HAND photogenic drawing negative from a manuscript original, framed, Buhl Collection and Guggenheim Museum exhibition labels on the reverse, before April 1840 (Schaaf 604) 5 1/8 by 7 1/2 in. (13.2 by 19 cm.) sheet

WILLIAM HENRY FOX TALBOT (1800-1877) Oak Tree in Winter, c. 1842-1843 salted paper print from a calotype negative image: 7¾ x 8 5/8in. (19.5 x 16.8cm.) sheet: 8 7/8 x 7 3/8in. (22.4 x 18.7cm.) Schaaf, The Photographic Art of William Henry Fox Talbot, Princeton University Press, 2000, pl. 59, p. 151, Schaaf 1981; In Focus: William Henry Fox Talbot, The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2002, pl. 29, p. 65

1. William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) Bust of Patroclus "The Pencil of Nature", 1843 Vintage salt print from paper negative, on orginal card mount. Titled in black ink on the recto of the mount cm 14,5 x 14 (5.7 x 5.5 in.) This photograph, showing Talbot's plaster cast of a Hellenistic marble now in the British Museum, appeared as plate 17 in The Pencil of Nature. The same print is at The Metropolitan Museum of Art collection. Litterature: The Art-Union, Palmer & Clayton, London, 1846, Vol 8 ; Gernsheim, Incunabula, 192, 193. Photography & the printed pp. 23-25 ; GEH, Imagining Paradise, p. 51 and illus. ; The Truthful Lense, p. 15 ; Horblit #10b ; NYPL Checklist #3 ; Yanulis p. 1 ; "William Henry Fox Talbot: Bust of Patroclus (1988.1159)". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000

WILLIAM HENRY FOX TALBOT (1800-1877) Bust of Patroclus, circa 1846 calotype print image 7 x 7in. (17.9 x 17.9cm.) sheet 8 7/8 x 7¼in. (22.5 x 18.4cm.) L.Schaaf, 'Remarks on the Nature of the Plates'; Introductory Volume, The Pencil of Nature Anniversary Facsimile, Hans P. Kraus, Jr. Inc., New York, 1989, pp. 48-49 and fig. 24. One of two variant studies of the Bust of Patroclus published as plate V, Part I of The Pencil of Nature, 1844. Schaaf explains that this larger version, surviving here in its untrimmed state, features only in a very few late issues of Part I. Gift of Michael and Jane Wilson.

LOT 43 WILLIAM HENRY FOX TALBOT 1800-1877 SELECTED STUDIES a group of 4 photographs, comprising 3 salt prints from calotype negatives and one from a manuscript-page negative, on hand-coated paper, 1840s (Schaaf 377, 415, 566, and 3660) (4) Various sizes to 5½ by 8¼ in. (14 by 21 cm.) or the reverse