The Art Union Journal: Monthly Journal of the Fine Arts and the Arts, Decorative, Ornamental. Vol. 8, 1846.

Includes an original salt print by W.H.F. Talbot, 'View of one of the towers of Orleans Cathedral', taken c. 5pm on June 21, 1843.

In 1846, the editor of the journal asked William Henry Fox Talbot to supply around 7,000 salt prints to accompany a story about the calotype process that appeared in their June issue. These prints were made at the Reading Establishment, a printing business run by Talbot’s former Dutch valet Nicolaas Henneman. Henneman used as many as seventy available negatives. Unfortunately for Talbot and Henneman, the Art-Union project proved to be a promotional and financial disaster, with most of the photographs, made in a rush, fading soon after publication.