{"id":622,"date":"2016-07-14T08:22:34","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T08:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/rpt\/?p=622"},"modified":"2023-10-06T10:51:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T10:51:19","slug":"henry-taunt-and-long-wittenham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/rpt\/?p=622","title":{"rendered":"Henry Taunt and Long Wittenham"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have long been familiar with a Henry Taunt image of the road from Long to Little Wittenham but in a recent web search found an interesting twist on the theme.<\/p>\n

The two images below\u00a0 clearly show that Taunt like other commercial photographers used\u00a0 ‘combination printing<\/a>‘ in dropping in a separate cloud background.<\/p>\n

I was familiar with Gustave Le Gray’s use of this technique in seascapes.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.vam.ac.uk\/content\/articles\/s\/gustave-le-grey-exhibition\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Here the two images. The second image is I presume the original.<\/p>\n

Without inspecting the originals in the Oxford Museum collection<\/a>
\nwhich may take some time as there 14000 images I cannot say if my hunch correct yet.<\/p>\n

Here a pdf of the catalogue<\/p>\n

Henry Taunt Catalogue<\/a><\/p>\n

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Here more images from the visit of Taunt and his camera to the village in 1890?<\/p>\n\n\t\t