William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877), British photography pioneer Size:S: 30 x 25cm The Palladian Horse Guards was

The Palladian Horse Guards was built in the early 1750s by John Vardy to a design by William Kent

The pagoda which was illuminated with gas lights

A tent has been erected and a group of figures gather around a fire on the ice

It is most probable that the race he is 'out of' is the inevitable race to be the next leader of the Liberal Party

William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877), British photography pioneer Size:S: 30 x 25cm The Palladian Horse Guards wasWilliam Henry Fox Talbot (1800 1877), British photography pioneer, 1900. Talbot is best known for his development of the calotype, an early photographic process that was an improvement over the daguerreotype of the French inventor Louis Daguerre. Talbot's calotypes involved the use of a photographic negative, from which multiple prints could be made. Had his method been announced a few weeks earlier, he, and not Daguerre, would probably be remembered