1977 Calendar commemorating the centenary of W H Fox Talbot's death
Category
Ephemera
Date
1976
Materials
Paper, Card, Covered wire
Measurements
510 x 380 x 6 mm
Collection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1522962
Summary
Large calendar for 1977 commemorating the centenary of W H Fox Talbot's death (1877). Each page has a photomechanical reproduction twelve of Fox Talbot's early photographs, taken between 1839 and 1846 - calotypes or salt paper negatives. In addition to the 12 pages for the months of the year, there is an introductory page at the front, with a foreword by R E Lassam, who was the Curator of the Fox Talbot Museum at Lacock in 1977. The reproductions were produced to enable the colours of the original coatings to be replicated, together with the natural and accidental staining which occurred since they were first made. The calendar is spiral bound at the top edge, in white plastic covered wire, and has a thick dark brown paper cover and a white card backing. The cover includes the copyright information: Copyright held by the Fox Talbot Museum Lacock, Wiltshire. A National Trust property October 1976. Printed at the Abbey Press, Abingdon, Oxon. Produced in 1976.