Art Institute of Chicago
Copy Print From "Celebrated Inscriptions Ancient Eugubine Tablets"
William Henry Fox TalbotLinkedCulture matchlcp-cbeb0adf94af
- Date
- c. 1844
- Medium
- Salted paper print
- Culture
- England
- Department
- Photography and Media
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 38979
When William Henry Fox Talbot, one of the inventors of photography, presented his initial findings in January 1839, he proposed a variety of applications for his new discovery, which he called “photogenic drawing.” He presciently detailed how it could be used for portraits, landscape, architecture, and depictions of objects seen in the microscope—but also as a tool for copying drawings and engravings. Here Talbot—an expert in ancient languages as well as chemistry—photographically reproduced a page showing a copy of inscriptions in a native Umbrian alphabet from one of seven ancient bronze tablets discovered in Italy in the 15th century.
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- Edward E. Ayer Endowment in memory of Charles L. Hutchinson
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- Object type
- AAT300046300
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