The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné

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Object within Schaaf no. 4253

Portrait of a woman, possibly Horatia Feilding

Object details

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Horatia was Talbot's half-sister

Image size: h 8.6cm x w 6.3cm

Object Type: Salted Paper Print

Physical description: bottom edge of negative is 6.1cm wide

Inscription: inscription in the negative indistinct, but probably the date inscribed above the sitter's head, April

Provenance:
Matilda Talbot 1934

Owner: National Science and Media Museum

Object owner number: 1937-3551/5

Collection: Science Museum Collection

This object is part of Schaaf no. 4253

Portrait of a woman, possibly Horatia Feilding

Henrietta Horatia Maria Gaisford, née Feilding (1810-1851), was Talbot's half-sister. She married Thomas Gaisford (1816-1898) in 1850.