About the Artwork
The Pencil of Nature
between 1844 and 1846
William Henry Fox Talbot
1800 - 1877
English
Unknown
Duo-tone lithography
12 x 9 1/2 in. 30.3 x 24.1 cm
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Founders Society Purchase, DeRoy Testamentary Foundation Acquisition Fund
1991.150
This work is in the public domain.
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William Henry Fox Talbot, The Pencil of Nature, between 1844 and 1846, Duo-tone lithography. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, DeRoy Testamentary Foundation Acquisition Fund, 1991.150.
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