View of Transept, Looking South
Medium
Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions
Image: 21.6 x 16.3 cm (8 1/2 x 6 7/16 in.) Mount: 35 x 21.2 cm (13 3/4 x 8 3/8 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Emanuel Gerard Gift, 1982
Accession Number
1982.1010.3
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the grandeur of 1851 with *View of Transept Looking South*, a salted paper print by Welsh photographer Hugh Owen and Nicola Henneman, Talbot's skilled calotype assistant. This intimate 21.6 x 16.3 cm image captures the soaring transept of London's Crystal Palace during the Great Exhibition—the world's first international showcase of industry and art. Bustling with sculptures, fountains, men, women and horses, it freezes a moment of Victorian spectacle, where cast-iron arches framed fountains that shot water 250 feet high amid exotic exhibits. The photograph's medium, a salted paper ...