Group at Lacock Abbey, ca. 1844

  • William Henry Fox Talbot, English, 1800 - 1877

Salted paper print from a calotype negative

  • Overall: 7 1/8 × 8 5/8 inches (18.1 × 21.9 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, John S. Newberry Fund

F77.42

Robert Hirshwood (London, England)

1977-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Buckland, G. Reality Recorded. Greenwich, CT, 1974, p. l5 (ill.). Andre, J. William Henry Fox Talbot. New York, 1973, pl. 31. Sharp, E. "A note on William Henry Fox Talbot and The Pencil of Nature." Bulletin of the DIA 66, no. 4 (1991): 42-46, fig. 2 (ill.).

William Henry Fox Talbot, Group at Lacock Abbey, ca. 1844, salted paper print from a calotype negative. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, John S. Newberry Fund, F77.42.