Currently not on view
The Fruitsellers,
ca. 1843
William Henry Fox Talbot, British, 1800–1877
and/or Calvert Richard Jones, Welsh, 1802–1877
and/or Calvert Richard Jones, Welsh, 1802–1877
2017-2
Talbot laid claim to the invention of photography, having revealed his paper-based process just after the French daguerreotype, an example of which is on view at right. Although the long exposures necessary in these early years made photographing groups of people difficult, Talbot adapted the tableau vivant, in which participants mimic the compositions of paintings for amusement, to create scenes for the camera. This image, taken at Talbot’s estate of Lacock Abbey, may have been produced in collaboration with the painter Calvert Richard Jones, who enthusiastically adopted many early photographic processes and who trained under Talbot.
Information
Title
The Fruitsellers
Dates
ca. 1843
Maker
Medium
Salted paper print
Dimensions
image: 17.1 × 21 cm (6 3/4 × 8 1/4 in.)
sheet: 18.7 × 22.5 cm (7 3/8 × 8 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Surdna Fund
Object Number
2017-2
Place Made
Europe, England, Lacock, Lacock Abbey
Reference Numbers
Schaaf 1917
Culture
Techniques
Subject
[Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., New York, NY]; purchased by the Princeton University Art Museum, 2017.
