Two specimens of fern leaf Cavendish-Bentinck His working tools lie idle

His working tools lie idle on the floor under a notice of the bricklayers' demands

View of Westminster and the City of London

The scene shows local geology

Duncan McKenzie

Two specimens of fern leaf Cavendish-Bentinck His working tools lie idleA photogenic drawing of two plant specimens, the leaves placed on sensitized paper and exposed to sunlight. Inscribed above in ink: 'An early attempt at Photography from Norwich.' Apparently, an early use of the process developed by William Henry Fox Talbot FRS (1800 1877). The naturalist and geologist Caleb Burrell Rose (1790 1872) in whose papers this image is preserved, practised as a surgeon in Swaffham, Norfolk, 1816 c. 1859.