William Henry Fox Talbot (British, 1800-1877) A Fruit Piece, 1845 Salt print from calotype negative, printed 1846 6-1/2 x 7-7/8 inches (16.5 x 20.0 cm) (image) This image represents plate XXIV of The Pencil of Nature, although this particular print was printed separately in 1846. EXHIBITED: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, "The Pencil of Nature,", January-April, 1989. LITERATURE: Braive, L'age de la photographie, Bruxelles Editions, 1965, p. 14; L. Goldschmidt and L. Naef, The Truthful Lens: A Survey of the Photographically Illustrated Book 1844-1914, Grolier Club, 1980, pl. 62; R. Lassam, Fox Talbot, Photographer, Kent State University Press, 1981; R. Gruber and L. F. Gruber, The Imaginary Photo Museum: 457 Photographs from 1836 to the Present, Penguin, 1982, pl. 202; D. Mrazkova, What is Photography: 150 Years of Photography, Praha, 1989, p. 35. HID03101062020 © 2020 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved