Portrait of Rosamond Constance Talbot, the Photographer’s Daughter
Also titled Portret van Rosamond Constance Talbot, dochter van de fotograaf
William Henry Fox Talbot (Melbury (Dorset), 1800–1877)
c. 1842
- Medium
- photographic support
- Classification
- photograph
- Dimensions
- height 113 mm x width 95 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
In this little salted paper portrait taken by the British inventor of photography, the difference with the daguerreotype – the French invention of photography on a silvered copper plate – is quite distinct. A daguerreotype photograph is pinpoint-sharp and almost tangible in a magical way. In contrast, a paper photograph has soft lines and contours and is picturesque, like a drawing in sepia. Daguerreotype produced unique and one-off images, while paper photography was reproducible.
