Name: The Pencil of Nature: Fully Illustrated with 24 Original Plates
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Author: Talbot, William Henry Fox
ISBN: 9781721695713

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The Pencil of Nature: Fully Illustrated with 24 Original Plates

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Physical Book

Author

William Henry Fox Talbot

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

25.4 x 17.8 x 0.3 cm

Weight

0.10 kg.

ISBN13

9781721695713

Synopsis "The Pencil of Nature: Fully Illustrated with 24 Original Plates"

The Pencil of Nature by William Henry Fox Talbot. The Pencil of Nature, published in six installments between 1844 and 1846, was the "first photographically illustrated book to be commercially published" or "the first commercially published book illustrated with photographs". It was wholly executed by the new art of Photogenic Drawing, without any aid whatever from the artist's pencil and regarded as an important and influential work in the history of photography. The little work now presented to the Public is the first attempt to publish a series of plates or pictures wholly executed by the new art of Photogenic Drawing, without any aid whatever from the artist's pencil. The term "Photography" is now so well known, that an explanation of it is perhaps superfluous; yet, as some persons may still be unacquainted with the art, even by name, its discovery being still of very recent date, a few words may be looked for of general explanation. It may suffice, then, to say, that the plates of this work have been obtained by the mere action of Light upon sensitive paper. They have been formed or depicted by optical and chemical means alone, and without the aid of any one acquainted with the art of drawing. It is needless, therefore, to say that they differ in all respects, and as widely us possible, in their origin, from plates of the ordinary kind, which owe their existence to the united skill of the Artist and the Engraver.

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