Articles of china arranged on four shelves. This is a variant on a similar photograph by Talbot that shows china on four shelves in a slightly different arrangement.Written on the verso in pencil is an 'L' shape in the lower right corner.

Articles of china arranged on two shelves.The reverse of the album leaf is blank.

Articles of glass and china arranged on four shelves.There is a pencil mark in the left edge, likely made by Talbot to identify which side was sensitized.On the reverse of the album leaf, written in pencil, is "Fox Talbot established photographic works at Reading & in 1844 commenced the publication of "The Pencil of Nature" the first book of photographic pictures".There is only one other known print of this image.