{"id":845,"date":"2014-06-04T14:34:12","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T14:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/?p=845"},"modified":"2021-02-21T14:49:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T14:49:15","slug":"the-pencil-of-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/2014\/06\/04\/the-pencil-of-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pencil of Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of my favourite photographs in the Centre for Research Collections come from The University of Edinburghs copy of William Henry Fox Talbot&#8217;s &#8220;<a title=\"The Pencil of Nature\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Pencil_of_Nature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Pencil of Nature<\/a>&#8220;. Shelfmark Df.3.85 .The book also contains an exceptional capital letter T complete with small dragon like creature with a vine like tongue. As can be seen below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2014\/06\/0024492d.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-848\" alt=\"0024492d\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2014\/06\/0024492d.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"1687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2014\/06\/0024492d.jpg 800w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2014\/06\/0024492d-142x300.jpg 142w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2014\/06\/0024492d-485x1024.jpg 485w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The two images that impress from the book are minimal images that to me feel very modern but have a profound sense of the time they were created through the use of the calotype technique. However i think these images create a wonderful time portal and makes us think of now as well as one hundred and seventy years ago when they were created. I have included whole and detailed views of both of the photographs. Further images from the book can be found <a title=\"The Pencil of Nature\" href=\"http:\/\/images.is.ed.ac.uk\/luna\/servlet\/view\/search?q==fox%20talbot%20LIMIT:UoEcar~3~3,UoEarc~1~1,UoEcha~4~4,UoEcha~1~1,UoEgal~5~5,UoEecl~1~1,UoEecp~1~1,UoEwmm~3~3,UoEcar~4~4,UoEhal~1~1,UoEgal~2~2,UoEwmm~2~2,UoEsha~3~3,UoEhal~2~2,UoEsha~4~4,UoEgal~6~6,UoEcar~2~2,UoEgal~3~3,UoEsha~1~1,AMICO~1~1,UoEsha~2~2,UoEgal~4~4,UoEwal~1~1,UoEwmm~1~1&amp;sort=Work_Creator_Details,Work_Shelfmark,Work_Source_Page_No,Work_Title\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Malcolm Brown, Deputy photographer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2014\/06\/0024506d.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-849\" alt=\"0024506d\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2014\/06\/0024506d.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"1120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2014\/06\/0024506d.jpg 800w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2014\/06\/0024506d-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2014\/06\/0024506d-731x1024.jpg 731w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2014\/06\/0024506detail.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-850\" alt=\"0024506detail\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2014\/06\/0024506detail.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"921\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2014\/06\/0024506detail.jpg 800w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2014\/06\/0024506detail-260x300.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2014\/06\/0024515d.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-851\" alt=\"0024515d\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2014\/06\/0024515d.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"1079\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2014\/06\/0024515d.jpg 800w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2014\/06\/0024515d-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2014\/06\/0024515d-759x1024.jpg 759w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2014\/06\/0024515detail.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-852\" alt=\"0024515detail\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2014\/06\/0024515detail.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"888\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2014\/06\/0024515detail.jpg 800w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2014\/06\/0024515detail-270x300.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of my favourite photographs in the Centre for Research Collections come from The University of Edinburghs copy of William Henry Fox Talbot&#8217;s &#8220;The Pencil of Nature&#8220;. Shelfmark Df.3.85 .The&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/2014\/06\/04\/the-pencil-of-nature\/\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Pencil of Nature<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[64,81],"tags":[38,22,27],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/files\/2014\/06\/0024506F.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2577,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions\/2577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/diu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}