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William Henry Fox Talbot

An Ancient Door, Magdalen College, Oxford, 1843

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Medium

salted paper print

Dimensions

image: 16 × 20.6 cm (6 5/16 × 8 1/8 in.)

sheet: 18.6 × 22.8 cm (7 5/16 × 9 in.)

Credit Line

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

Accession Number

2015.33.1

Artists / Makers

William Henry Fox Talbot (artist) British, 1800 - 1877

Image Use

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Inscription

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

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

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