Base of Radcliffe Library, Oxford
William Henry Fox Talbot
July 29, 1842
Medium
Calotype paper negative
Dimensions
Image/paper: 13.4 × 16.9 cm (5 5/16 × 6 11/16 in.); Mount: 29.6 × 24.9 cm (11 11/16 × 9 13/16 in.)
Classification
calotype negative
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
49865
About the Artist
William Henry Fox Talbot · 1800–1877
William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877), a British polymath whose ingenuity transformed visual representation, was born on 11 February 1800 at Melbury House, Dorset, the only child of William Davenport Talbot of Lacock Abbey and Lady Elisabeth Fox Strangways, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Ilchester. His father died shortly after his birth, leaving the family in financial straits until his formidable mo...