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Document number: 7245
Date: 10 Mar 1856
Recipient: FORBES James David
Author: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Collection: Univ of St Andrews Special Collections Scotland
Collection number: MS Dep 7 1856/28
Last updated: 12th July 2010

Athenĉum <1> London
March 10/56

Dr Sir

I am much obliged by Your letter. <2> I expect to be in Edinburgh Friday or Saturday – In reply to your question about the steel engravings, <3> they are entirely the product of Photography aided by Chemical action, and have not been touched in any way by an artistic hand – Some of them look as if the shadows were effected by the cross cutting of a graver’s tool but it is really the shadow of a piece of black crape or rather of two pieces laid diagonally one over the other.

Believe me Yours very Truly
H. F. Talbot

Profr Forbes


Notes:

1. The Athenĉum and (London) Literary Chronicle, London.

2. Doc. No: 07244.

3. Photographic engravings.

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