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An Ancient Door, Magdalen College, Oxford

1843

William Henry Fox Talbot

Artist, British, 1800 - 1877

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Artwork overview

Medium

salted paper print
Credit Line

Gift of Carolyn Schwenker Brody, in Honor of the 25th Anniversary of Photography at the National Gallery of Art
Dimensions

image: 16 × 20.6 cm (6 5/16 × 8 1/8 in.)
sheet: 18.6 × 22.8 cm (7 5/16 × 9 in.)
Accession

2015.33.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Carolyn Schwenker Brody, New York; gift to NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Brody, Carolyn

Exhibition History

2015

Celebrating Photography at the National Gallery of Art: Recent Gifts, Washington, DC, November 1, 2015–February 28, 2016

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, lower center in graphite: WHT/1018; lower right in black ink: LA 129

Wikidata ID

Q64169843

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