Bust of Patroclus
William Henry Fox Talbot
August 9, 1843
Medium
Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions
14.9 x 14.5 cm (5 7/8 x 5 11/16 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Hans P. Kraus Jr., 1988
Accession Number
1988.1159
Tags
SculpturePatroclus
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...