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Document number: 04089
Date: 14 Jun 1840
Recipient: BERTOLONI Antoino
Author: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art Dept of Photographs New York
Collection number: Bertoloni Album
Last updated: 6th May 2013

Londres 31 Sackville Street
le 14 Juin 1840

Monsieur

J’ai le plaisir de vous envoyer douze dessins photogéniques <1> pris avec la Camera Obscura, réprésentant des maisons, <2> des statues, <3> l’intérieur d’un jardin, <4> un service de déjeûner <5> [sic], &c. &c.

Recevez, Monsieur, l’expression de ma haute considération.
H. F. Talbot


Translation:

London 31 Sackville Street
14 June 1840

Dear Sir,

I have the pleasure of sending you twelve photogenic drawings taken with the Camera Obscura, representing houses, statues, the inside of a garden, a luncheon service, &c., &c.

Receive, Sir, my sincere regards
H. F. Talbot


Notes:

1. Bertoloni preserved many of the photographs that WHFT sent to him in an album, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. This and two other letters from WHFT to Bertoloni, along with a 15 August 1839 letter from William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways to Bertoloni are also included in this album [see Doc. No: 03887, and Doc. No: 03921]. See also Malcolm Daniel, ‘L’Album Bertoloni’, Fotografia & Fotografi a Bologna, 1839–1900 (Bologna: Grafis, 1992); and Graham Smith, ‘Talbot and Botany: The Bertoloni Album’, History of Photography, v. 17 no. 1, Spring 1993, pp. 33–48.

2. For these images see ‘Abbazia di Lacock, ora casa di campagna dell’Autore’, Schaaf 4269; ‘L’estremit … settentrionale dell ’Abbazia di Lacock’, Schaaf 2439; ‘Altra veduta della Abbazia di Lacock’, Schaaf 3674; ‘Edifizio di Bowood’, Schaaf 2376; and ‘Altra veduta dell ’Edifizio di Bowood’, Schaaf 3673.

3. For these image see ‘Gruppo di Gioan Bologna rappresentante il ratto delle sabine’, Schaaf 2411; ‘Busto Antico’, Schaaf 4297; and ‘Testa di Patroclo’ or ‘Bust of Patroclus’, Schaaf 2354 reproduced in Larry J. Schaaf, Sun Pictures Catalogue Three: The Harold White Collection of Works by William Henry Fox Talbot (New York: Hans P. Kraus, Jr, Inc., 1987), p. 67.

4. For this image see ‘Interno di un giardino’ or ‘Trellis, Lady Elisabeth’s Rose Garden, Lacock’, Schaaf 2442 reproduced in Larry J. Schaaf, Sun Pictures Catalogue Three: The Harold White Collection of Works by William Henry Fox Talbot (New York: Hans P. Kraus, Jr, Inc., 1987), p. 29.

5. For this image see ‘Tavola parecchiata per colazione a The’, Schaaf 141.