WILLIAM HENRY FOX TALBOT [1800-1877]- Cloisters of Lacock Ab...

Hammer

£900

WILLIAM HENRY FOX TALBOT [1800-1877]- Cloisters of Lacock Abbey, 1844, salted paper print,:- 16 x 21cm, together with one other contemporary salted paper print of a manuscript text, numbered 2, relating to Talbot's interest in Middle Eastern antiquity, 18 x 21cm. * The 26 lines of photographed manuscript in the present lot, with references to Egyptology, is difficult to read. The text commences 'Mr. Birch's Translation - ''The Livina Ra, the powerful bull...' and continues later ''....Seti beloved of Phtha .....''