Editing Henry Fox Talbot (section)

== 1844 calotype of Thomas Moore and the Talbot household ==
[[File:Thomas_Moore_1844.jpeg|right|thumb|Moore stands centre in a photograph by William Henry Fox Talbot dated April 1844]]
Talbot was a friend and neighbour in Wiltshire of the famed Irish poet and writer [[Thomas Moore]]. Dated April 1844, Talbot made a calotype of Moore as a visitor standing with members of his own household.

The distinctive curls identify Talbot's half sister Henrietta Horatia Fielding standing to his left.&nbsp; Eliza Frayland, the nursemaid at the far left, had come into the family's employ with the birth of Charles Henry Talbot in 1842.&nbsp; Arranged in the front are Matilda Caroline (later Gilchrist-Clark, age 5); Ela Theresa (age 9);&nbsp; Rosamond Constance Talbot (age 7).&nbsp; The woman at the right is possibly Moore's wife Bessy.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Schaaf|first=Larry J.|title=Thomas Moore & the Ladies of Lacock|date=16 September 2016 |url=https://talbot.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/2016/09/16/thomas-moore-the-ladies-of-lacock/|access-date=2021-03-23|language=en-GB}}</ref>

Moore took an early interest in Talbot's photogenic drawings. Talbot, in turn, took images of Moore's hand-written poetry possibly for inclusion in facsimile in an edition of ''[[The Pencil of Nature]].''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Talbot Correspondence Project: MOORE Thomas (poet) to TALBOT William Henry Fox|url=http://foxtalbot.dmu.ac.uk/letters/transcriptDocnum.php?docnum=5028|access-date=2021-03-23|website=foxtalbot.dmu.ac.uk}}</ref>