Lot 11 · 50 Masterworks to Celebrate 50 Years of Sotheby’s Photographs
’s Gifts to his Sister: Horatia Gaisford’s Collection of Photographs and Ephemera
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- Estimate
- $300,000–$500,000 hammer
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Sotheby's — 50 Masterworks to Celebrate 50 Years of Sotheby’s Photographs, New York · 21 April 2021
- Record ID
- TB-2026-4919032
- Record
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William Henry Fox Talbot, William Henry Fox Talbot’s Gifts to his Sister: Horatia Gaisford’s Collection of Photographs and Ephemera. Sotheby's, 21 Apr 2021, lot 11. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4919032.
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William Henry Fox Talbot, William Henry Fox Talbot’s Gifts to his Sister: Horatia Gaisford’s Collection of Photographs and Ephemera. Sotheby's, 21 Apr 2021, lot 11. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4919032.
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