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品名（中）	[阅读机构]
品名（英）	[The Reading Establishment]
入馆年号	1999年，2005.100.171.1, .2
策展部门	摄影（Photographs）
创作者	William Henry Fox Talbot【1800 至 1877】【英国人】
创作年份	公元 1846
创作地区
分类	照片（Photographs）
尺寸	Left image: 18.6 x 22.4 厘米 (7 5/16 x 8 13/16 英寸) Right image: 18.1 × 22 厘米 (7 1/8 × 8 11/16 英寸) 整体页: 19.9 × 49.1 厘米 (7 13/16 × 19 5/16 英寸)
介绍（中）	大版摄影版画的广泛发行是塔尔博特负-正过程的承诺，也是其相对于同时代法国银版照相术的主要优势。1844年初，为了鼓励纸质照片的大规模生产，塔尔博特支持他的前贴身男仆尼古拉斯·亨内曼在雷丁镇创建了第一家摄影印刷公司。《自然之笔》的版画就是在那里制作的雷丁机构的活动如图所示：塔尔博特在中心操作相机，拍摄肖像，而亨内曼在右侧拍摄三女神雕塑。其他员工复制雕刻品，拿着装有感光纸的第二台相机聚精会神地站着，看着夹着底片和相纸在阳光下打印的玻璃架，并调整可能有助于聚焦的设备。
介绍（英）	The widespread distribution of large editions of photographic prints was the promise of Talbot's negative-positive process and its principal advantage over the contemporaneous French daguerreotype. In early 1844, in an effort to encourage the mass production of paper photographs, Talbot supported Nicolaas Henneman, his former valet, in the creation of the first photographic printing firm, situated in the town of Reading. It was there that prints for The Pencil of Nature were produced. The activities of the Reading establishment are shown here: Talbot, operating the camera at the center, makes a portrait, while at the right Henneman photographs a sculpture of the Three Graces. Other employees copy an engraving, stand attentively with a second camera back-loaded with sensitized paper, attend the racks of glass frames in which negatives and photographic paper are sandwiched for printing in sunlight, and adjust a device likely intended to aid focusing.