威斯敏斯特大教堂 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	威斯敏斯特大教堂
品名（英）	Westminster Abbey
入馆年号	1994年，1994.197.6 (1)
策展部门	摄影（Photographs）
创作者	Nicolaas Henneman【1813 至 1898】【荷兰人】
创作年份	公元 1845 - 公元 1846
创作地区
分类	照片（Photographs）
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介绍（中）	塔尔博特1839年首次公开的正负摄影过程将改变知识的传播，这是自活字以来没有其他发明的。为了证明纸质照片的广泛传播潜力——它比同时代的法国银版照相术的主要优势——塔尔博特制作了《自然的铅笔》，这是第一本以照片为插图的商业出版书籍。塔尔博特的图像和简短的文本具有非凡的先见之明，为媒体提出了广泛的应用，包括肖像画、绘画、雕塑和手稿的复制、旅行视图、视觉清单、科学记录和艺术散文，《自然之笔》在商业上并不成功。如今，现存的大致完整的副本不到四十份，其中许多已经褪色。目前的例子包含了所有二十四个盘子，仍然保存在罕见的原始分册封面中，以前是塔尔博特的女儿玛蒂尔达的收藏。
介绍（英）	Talbot's negative-positive photographic process, first made public in 1839, would change the dissemination of knowledge as had no other invention since movable type. To demonstrate the paper photograph's potential for widespread distribution--its chief advantage over the contemporaneous French daguerreotype--Talbot produced The Pencil of Nature, the first commercially published book illustrated with photographs. With extraordinary prescience, Talbot's images and brief texts proposed a wide array of applications for the medium, including portraiture, reproduction of paintings, sculptures, and manuscripts, travel views, visual inventories, scientific records, and essays in art. Despite the revolutionary nature of Talbot's undertaking, or perhaps because of it, The Pencil of Nature was not a commercial success. Today fewer than forty substantially complete copies--many quite faded--are extant. The present example, containing all twenty-four plates and still in its rare original fascicle covers, was formerly in the collection of Talbot's daughter Matilda.