The Art-Union
Subtitle: monthly journal of the fine arts and the arts, decorative, ornamental : Vol. 8.
Publisher: Printed by Palmer and Clayton
Published: 1846
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
Subjects: Photography; History; Calotype; Daguerreotype
Other titles: Art-Union monthly journal; Talbotype: sun pictures.
Description: "The first use of a silver-based photographic print in a periodical."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 10.
Notes: "The first magazine in the world to be illustrated with a photograph"--Gernsheim.

The article, "The Talbotype: sun pictures" (p. 143-144), is accompanied by a mounted photograph (calotype) by W.H.F. Talbot. The images vary among copies: at least 13 different images were employed, including some which also appeared in Talbot's The pencil of nature and Sun pictures in Scotland.

The mounted photograph sometimes has a letterpress caption pasted beneath, and/or a letterpress label pasted on the reverse: "Patent Talbotype or sun pictures". Labels are known with added text: "A great variety of specimens on sale at Messrs. Brooks (Brothers), 87, New Bond Street, London".

The remaining 17 plates consist of wood- and steel engravings, lithographs, and chromolithographs. Some of the plates vary among copies.

Illustrated title-page.

Text in triple columns within single-rule border.

Gernsheim, H. Incunabula of British photographic literature, 620.
Table of contents: title: Daguerreotype casts (p. 18); title: Photographic miniatures (p. 19-20); title: Photography (p. 91); title: Photography (p. 139); title: The Talbotype: sun pictures (p. 143-144); title: The application of the Talbotype (p. 195); title: Daguerreotype portraits (p. 216).