Copied by the sun
Subtitle: Talbotype illustrations to the Annals of the artists of Spain by Sir William Stirling Maxwell : studies and catalogue raisonné
By: edited by Hilary Macartney and José Manuel Matilla
Contributors: Museo del Prado; Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica
Publisher: Museo Nacional del Prado; Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Madrid
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9788484803225; 9788484803232; 9788415245537; 9788415245544; 9788415245551
Subjects: Illustrations; Photography of art; History; Calotype; Spanish Art; Pictorial works
Other titles: Talbotype illustrations to the Annals of the artists of Spain by Sir William Stirling Maxwell :
Notes: The first volume contains an introduction to the collaborative project, sponsored by the Museo del Prado and the Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica, to describe the "ideal copy" of Stirling's Annals of the artists of Spain, the first book on art history to be illustrated with photographs. The essays of this interpretive volume provide a comprehensive examination of the Talbotype images of the Annals, and the book's significance. Also included are a catalogue raisonné of the photographic plates in the Annals Talbotypes volume, and a census of bound editions copies of Talbotypes illustrations to the Annals of the artists of Spain.  The second volume is a reconstruction of the volume that William Stirling presented to selected friends, family, fellow Hispanophiles, and libraries in 1848. Technically it is not a "facsimile" volume  based on facsimile reproduction, but one created through digital reconstruction of the Talbotype images using Adobe Photoshop, which allowed barely visible images to be recovered, tones to be modified, and lost portions reintegrated by taking parts from different copies of the same image.

In conjunction with this project, an exhibition of the original Talbotype images was held at the Museo del Prado, Madrid, May 18-Sept. 4, 2016, "in the half-light of Gallery D"--See colophon.

Includes bibliographical references (volume 1, pages 335-352) and index (volume 1).
Table of contents: title: [1] Copied by the sun; title: [2] Talbotype illustrations to the Annals of the artists of Spain.