William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877), British photography pioneer Size:XL: 120 x 100cm Plate 25 from The zoological

Plate 25 from The zoological miscellany

'The North Side of the Harbour at Sebastopol

Hawkesley is standing with his left hand in his coat pocket and right hand on a folded umbrella

which has matching cloth to his chair

William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877), British photography pioneer Size:XL: 120 x 100cm Plate 25 from The zoologicalWilliam Henry Fox Talbot (1800 1877), British photography pioneer, 1900. Talbot is best known for his development of the calotype, an early photographic process that was an improvement over the daguerreotype of the French inventor Louis Daguerre. Talbot's calotypes involved the use of a photographic negative, from which multiple prints could be made. Had his method been announced a few weeks earlier, he, and not Daguerre, would probably be remembered