The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné

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Object within Schaaf no. 2549

Bust of Venus

Object details

Alternate titles

Bust of Susanna, after Francois du Quesnoy
TALBOT ALBUM No. 4; NMeM second of pair of "Lady Elisabeth Feilding" albums

Created: 23 Jan 1841

Image size: h 15.2cm x w 16.8cm

Paper size: h 18.4cm x w 22.8cm

Object Type: Salted Paper Print

Mount: grey paper album page

Inscription: inscribed in the negative, lower right, Janry. 23. 1841; pencil X recto

Provenance:
Matilda Talbot 1934

Owner: National Science and Media Museum

Object owner number: 1937-0366/115

Collection: Science Museum Collection

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This object is part of Schaaf no. 2549

Bust of Venus

Keywords: Sculpture

One of the objects most photographed by Talbot, this statuette seems always to have been known as the “Bust of Venus” by the Talbot family. It was often referred to as such in inscriptions made by the likes of Lady Elisabeth Feilding. It is in fact a “Bust of Susanna”, reduced from the original full-figure marble statue by the Baroque sculptor, François du Quesnoy (1597-1643). The original is in the church of Santa Maria di Loreto, in Rome.

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