William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877), British photography pioneer Size:S: 30 x 25cm A tent has been erected

A tent has been erected and a group of figures gather around a fire on the ice

'Samuel McPherson

Inscribed in ink upper left 'Tab

massed tents stretch along the French coast

William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877), British photography pioneer Size:S: 30 x 25cm A tent has been erectedWilliam Henry Fox Talbot (1800 1877), British photography pioneer, 1900. Talbot is best known for his development of the calotype, an early photographic process that was an improvement over the daguerreotype of the French inventor Louis Daguerre. Talbot's calotypes involved the use of a photographic negative, from which multiple prints could be made. Had his method been announced a few weeks earlier, he, and not Daguerre, would probably be remembered