William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877), British photography pioneer Size:XL: 120 x 100cm English stage and film actor

English stage and film actor

Demolition of old houses near Walbrook to make way for King William Street

They are left to right: Trainer Harry Cooke

Hawkesley is standing with his left hand in his coat pocket and right hand on a folded umbrella

'The North Side of the Harbour at Sebastopol

William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877), British photography pioneer Size:XL: 120 x 100cm English stage and film actorWilliam Henry Fox Talbot (1800 1877), British photography pioneer, 1900. Talbot is best known for his development of the calotype, an early photographic process that was an improvement over the daguerreotype of the French inventor Louis Daguerre. Talbot's calotypes involved the use of a photographic negative, from which multiple prints could be made. Had his method been announced a few weeks earlier, he, and not Daguerre, would probably be remembered