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Leaf of a Plant (Science Museum Group collection)

Henry Fox Talbot1844

The Royal Society

The Royal Society
London, United Kingdom

Plate VII from The Pencil of Nature,published between June 1844 and April 1846, was the first commercially published book to be illustrated with photographs.

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