An Ancient Door in Magdalen College, Oxford

April 1843

William Henry Fox Talbot

Artist, British, 1800 - 1877

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    salted paper print

  • Credit Line

    Robert B. Menschel Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 18.8 x 22.7 cm (7 3/8 x 8 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1997.28.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Charles Isaacs Photographs, Malvern, PA); purchased with donated funds by NGA, 1997.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1997

  • Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997-1998, no. 86.

1999

  • Photographs from the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1999.

Bibliography

1976

  • Lloyd, Valerie. Photography: The First Eighty Years. London, 1976: p. 17, no. 23.

1989

  • Schaff, Larry J., ed. H. Fox Talbot's "The Pencil of Nature": Anniversary Facsimile. New York, 1989: p. 68, fig. 36.

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower right verso in black ink: LA129

Wikidata ID

Q64169901

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