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| Keywords: William Henry Fox Talbot, Carriages and Parisian Townhouses, 1843.jpg In May 1843 William Henry Fox Talbot went to Paris with his assistant Nicolaas Henneman A year later with Talbot's support Henneman established the first photographic printing firm in Reading England They traveled to France to negotiate the licensing rights for Talbot's calotype process and to instruct the licensee in its use This was Talbot's first trip outside of England with his camera and he was undoubtedly eager to put it to good use <br> This view outside of an elegant Parisian townhouse shows an active scene The carriage driver and horses wait curbside poised to carry passengers to their destination and the line of arriving and departing carriages rolling across the bottom of the picture suggests a busy boulevard The calotype's clarity of detail is superb rivaling that of the daguerreotype France's homegrown photographic medium and the calotype's chief competition 1843-05 Salt print from a calotype negative Image 16 8 x 17 3 cm 6 5/8 x 6 13/16 in Sheet 19 1 x 23 cm 7 1/2 x 9 1/16 in Mat 36 2 x 48 9 cm 14 1/4 x 19 1/4 in Institution Getty Museum object history exhibition history other versions 46631 Inscr vo print in ink in the hand of Ostroff LA777 credit line accession number 84 XM 478 6 PD-100 Henry Fox Talbot Historical images of Boulevard des Capucines Carriages in Paris 1843 in Paris 1843 photographs Salt prints 19th-century photographs of Paris Photographs in the Getty Museum Calotypes in the Getty Museum | ||||
