Historic monocle unmearthed at Lacock
4:00pm Tuesday 22nd February 2011 in News
The monocle recently found at Lacock
Historians at the birthplace of modern photography have discovered a monocle worn by William Henry Fox Talbot, some 130 years after his death.
Talbot, recognised as the father of modern photography with invention of the positive negative process in 1835, used the monocle during his development work for the first camera.
But it laid undisturbed in one of the private rooms at Lacock Abbey where the great man lived and worked.
When the final tenants moved out of the accommodation, curator Roger Watson was able to access rooms at the Abbey to search through old boxes and files which had gathered dust since Talbot’s death in 1877.
The monocle, now in pride of place at the museum, was shown to a group of photographers who gathered in Lacock for a special dinner t mark the annual Talbot Day celebrations.
Curator Mr Watson said: “I know it is definitely Talbot’s monocle as we have photographs of him wearing it in his thirties and forties.”
Comments(4)
Cyanide
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5:13pm Wed 23 Feb 11
Freezer
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1:33pm Fri 25 Feb 11
deanowilts wrote:You may forgive the odd typo in a long paragraph, but in not the headline! You would expect that to be correct at least!
FFS Will the wiltshire times EVER invest in a decent spell checker or some decent journalists? the amount of typo's on this site, considering it is a newspaper is a joke. "Unmeartherd" PMSL!!
Marrytime
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1:38pm Sun 27 Feb 11
Amazingly the headline typo remains uncorrected 6 days after publication!
Monocle.
Interesting find. Let's hope another comes to light ; together they would make quite a spectacle at the museum.
deanowilts says...
3:55pm Wed 23 Feb 11
"Unmeartherd" PMSL!!