About the Artwork
Group at Lacock Abbey
ca. 1844
William Henry Fox Talbot
1800 - 1877
English
Unknown
Salted paper print from a calotype negative
Overall: 7 1/8 × 8 5/8 inches (18.1 × 21.9 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, John S. Newberry Fund
F77.42
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
Robert Hirshwood (London, England)
1977-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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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.).
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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.
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