Top of Sharington's Tower, Lacock Abbey, Taken from the Roof above the South Gallery
October 14, 1840
Medium
Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions
Image: 5 13/16 × 7 1/16 in. (14.7 × 17.9 cm), irregularly trimmed Sheet: 7 5/16 × 8 7/8 in. (18.6 × 22.6 cm), irregularly trimmed
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Rubel Collection, Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee, and Anonymous Gifts, 1997
Accession Number
1997.382.2
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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...