William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877), British photography pioneer Size:XL: 120 x 100cm Knights duelling on foot in

Knights duelling on foot in a tournament

English stage and film actor

'The North Side of the Harbour at Sebastopol

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

An exhibit from the Guildhall Museum

William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877), British photography pioneer Size:XL: 120 x 100cm Knights duelling on foot inWilliam 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