玻璃制品 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	玻璃制品
品名（英）	Articles of Glass
入馆年号	1988年，1988.1047
策展部门	摄影（Photographs）
创作者	William Henry Fox Talbot【1800 至 1877】【英国人】
创作年份	公元 1841 - 公元 1844
创作地区
分类	照片（Photographs）
尺寸	13.2 x 15.1 厘米. (5 3/16 x 5 15/16 英寸)
介绍（中）	静物画家经常在他们精心制作的水果或花卉作品中加入切割的水晶或玻璃器皿（53.111），部分原因是为了展示精湛的技术，即绘制一个只有在反射和折射光下才能看到的透明物体，这是一个特殊的挑战，如果成功，会给观众带来特别的快乐。塔尔博特在《自然之笔》第4版中似乎说："看看新的摄影媒介能给你带来什么，不仅仅是一个水晶高脚杯，还有装满玻璃的架子，就像它记录任何其他主题一样毫不费力。" 在前一版《中国文章》中，塔尔博特还推测了摄影的一种新用途："一个维拉托索人和旧中国收藏家的整个柜子可能会在纸上被描绘出来，只需要他写一份书面清单的时间。"更具预言性的是，他推测，"如果一个小偷事后偷走了这些宝藏，如果照片中的无声证词在法庭上对他不利，这肯定是一种新颖的证据；但法官和陪审团可能会对此说什么，这是我留给那些有法律头脑的人猜测的问题。"
介绍（英）	Still-life painters frequently included cut crystal or glassware in their elaborate fruit or flower compositions (53.111), in part as a demonstration of virtuoso technique-to paint a transparent object, visible only as reflected and refracted light, presents a special challenge and, if successful, brings particular delight to the viewer. Talbot, in plate 4 of The Pencil of Nature seems to say, "Look at what the new medium of photography can give you-not just one crystal goblet, but shelves full of glass, as effortlessly as it records any other subject." In the preceding plate, Articles of China, Talbot also speculated on a new use of photography: "the whole cabinet of a Virtuoso and collector of old China might be depicted on paper in little more time than it would take him to make a written inventory." Even more prophetically, he speculated that "should a thief afterwards purloin the treasures-if the mute testimony of the picture were to be produced against him in court-it would certainly be evidence of a novel kind; but what the judge and jury might say to it, is a matter which I leave to the speculation of those who possess legal acumen."