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Bust of Patroclus
Creator
William Henry Fox TalbotPhotographer · 1800–1877
All works by this person →In 1833, after failed attempts at drawing using the camera lucida, an optical tool, William Henry Fox Talbot wrote: "[H]ow charming it would be if it were possible to cause these natural images to imprint themselves durably, and remain fixed upon the paper!" Talbot, a scientist, mathematician, and author, is credited with being one of the inventors of photography. In mid-1834 he began to experimen
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- negative August 9, 1843
- Medium
- Salted paper print from a paper negative
- Culture
- British
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 0e5fb695-034d-49db-9b29-8427150ff039
What the image shows
A classical bust of a man with curly hair, viewed from the side.
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View of a plaster bust of a male with disheveled hair turned in profile, gazing to the left against a black background.
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