Photographers:
Connections:
Getting around...
| Home > Contents > Images
LL/126489
Unidentified photographer
n.d.
Five Feathers

Paper Negative-Contact
18.5 x 19.3 cm
 
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Rubel Collection, purchased 1997, Object owner number: 1997.382.5
 
Alternative title: Chicken feathers
 
Schaaf no. 3735
This arrangement of chicken feathers if one of the earliest experiments by Nevil Story-Maskelyne who as a teenager home from school during the summer of 1840, saw a demonstration of Talbot's process of photogenic drawing and tried his hand at the new art.
 
LL/126489


 

Terms and conditions • Copyright • Privacy • Contact me
Contributors retain copyright over their submissions
In using this website you agree to the Terms and Conditions
© Alan Griffiths - Luminous-Lint 2025