On January 25, 1839, photographer, Henry Fox Talbot exhibited his early photographs to the Royal Institution in London, England. For an extra 5 shillings, it was heard that Talbot would allow an adventurous Englishman to have a private viewing of some of his daguerreotypes of winsome, happily frolicking French maids, and for an extra 5 pounds, that same man wouldn’t be forced to look at his newly patented salt prints of northern English women shoeing horses and catcalling at the more effeminate, southern Englishmen. It is said that Prime Minister William Lamb paid 10 pounds so he wouldn’t be forced to look at the same salt prints twice.