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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