The Pencil of Nature, Volume 1
date: label: Date made
content: 1844-06
name: label: maker
content: Talbot, William Henry Fox
notes: label: Description
content: First book published with photographs.
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content: Volume one includes Plates I - V.
label: Description
content: The Pencil of Nature is the first book to contain photographs and to be mass produced. The photographs were made by the inventor of the process, William Henry Fox Talbot, and the book predicts the uses of photography. There were six installments of the book from June 1844 to April 1846. The cost: three guineas each.
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content: Talbot writes the introduction, telling his story about how he invented the calotype. Volume one contains, five photographs: "Part of Queen's College, Oxford", "View of the Boulevards at Paris", "Articles of China", "Articles of Glass", and "Bust of Patroclus."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PG.001940A
label: accession number
content: 56462
label: catalog number
content: 1940A
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content: Publication
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content: Journal
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 9 1/2 in; 30.48 cm x 24.13 cm