Plymouth

Category

Library Item

Item no

3883

Title

Plymouth

Description

A view of the Victualling Office at Mount Edgcumbe taken at Talbot's half-sister's house in Plymouth.
Three women sit beside Plymouth harbour, they are leaning on two cannons. A man stands to the left of them, he is looking out to sea through a telescope. The women are wearing dresses and bonnets, the man wears a top hat.

Artist / maker

Talbot, William Henry Fox

Date

1845

Size

8 x 9.5 cm

Type

Salted paper print

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

This photograph was taken at the Edgcumbe family's private / saluting gun battery at Mount Edgcumbe, looking across the River Tamar to the Royal William Yard, Stonehouse. There is a similar Talbot calotype of the same subject dated c1845. Talbot was related to the Edgcumbe family by marriage, through his half sister. Mount Edgcumbe was in Devon until 1844 when it became part of Cornwall.

Plymouth is a city in Devon, a county in the south-west of England. It has a long maritime and naval history. It is situated at the head of a large natural harbour known as the Plymouth Sound.

You can read more about the history of this picture and Talbot from The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonne blog.

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Landscape > Water > Harbours

Military > Arms and armament > Cannons

People > Adults > Men

People > Adults > Women

Places > United Kingdom > Devon

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