[Botanical Specimen]
ca. 1835
![[Botanical Specimen] by William Henry Fox Talbot](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/botanical-specimen-283063.webp)
Medium
Salted paper print
Dimensions
Sheet: 7 3/8 × 4 7/16 in. (18.8 × 11.3 cm), irregularly trimmed
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.840
Tags
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...