William Henry Fox Talbot

British, 1800 - 1877

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William Henry Fox Talbot, Fern, 1852, photogravure, Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund, 2023.33.1

Fern

William Henry Fox Talbot · 1852 · photogravure ·  Accession ID  2023.33.1

William Henry Fox Talbot, A Scene in York: York Minster from Lop Lane, 1845, salted paper print, Edward J. Lenkin Fund, Melvin and Thelma Lenkin Fund and Stephen G. Stein Fund, 2011.57.1

A Scene in York: York Minster from Lop Lane

William Henry Fox Talbot · 1845 · salted paper print ·  Accession ID  2011.57.1

William Henry Fox Talbot, The Reverend Calvert Jones in the Cloisters at Lacock Abbey, 1845, salted paper print, Gift of Robert B. Menschel, 2022.154.15

The Reverend Calvert Jones in the Cloisters at Lacock Abbey

William Henry Fox Talbot · 1845 · salted paper print ·  Accession ID  2022.154.15

William Henry Fox Talbot, Haystack, 1844, salted paper print, Paul Mellon Fund, 2007.29.41

Haystack

William Henry Fox Talbot · 1844 · salted paper print ·  Accession ID  2007.29.41

William Henry Fox Talbot, An Ancient Door in Magdalen College, Oxford, April 1843, salted paper print, Robert B. Menschel Fund, 1997.28.1

An Ancient Door in Magdalen College, Oxford

William Henry Fox Talbot · April 1843 · salted paper print ·  Accession ID  1997.28.1

William Henry Fox Talbot, An Ancient Door, Magdalen College, Oxford, 1843, salted paper print, Gift of Carolyn Schwenker Brody, in Honor of the 25th Anniversary of Photography at the National Gallery of Art, 2015.33.1

An Ancient Door, Magdalen College, Oxford

William Henry Fox Talbot · 1843 · salted paper print ·  Accession ID  2015.33.1

We look across a street at the façade of a five-story building with a pitched roof in this square sepia-toned photograph. Vertical rectangular windows are spaced along the lowest two levels of the building, which appears to be constructed with large rectangular stones. There is a squat, arched window over a dark opening at the bottom center. The façade of the next two stories is smooth. Tall, narrow arched windows line the third story, and the fourth story has smaller rectangular windows with shutters. Columns frame the central bank of windows in the third and fourth stories. Dormers of the fifth level protrude from the low pitched roof, which nearly reaches the top edge of the photograph. Another house is visible through a narrow alleyway to our right, and another shorter house is cropped by the right edge. Some details of the three horse-drawn carriages lining the street in front of the houses are blurry. The image is surrounded by a wide black band with uneven edges.
William Henry Fox Talbot, The Boulevards of Paris, 1843, salted paper print, New Century Fund, 1997.97.4

The Boulevards of Paris

William Henry Fox Talbot · 1843 · salted paper print ·  Accession ID  1997.97.4

William Henry Fox Talbot, Orléans Cathedral, June 1843, salted paper print, Robert B. Menschel Fund, 1998.136.1

Orléans Cathedral

William Henry Fox Talbot · June 1843 · salted paper print ·  Accession ID  1998.136.1

William Henry Fox Talbot, Oak Tree, mid-1840s, salted paper print, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1995.36.117

Oak Tree

William Henry Fox Talbot · mid-1840s · salted paper print ·  Accession ID  1995.36.117

William Henry Fox Talbot, Winter Trees, Reflected in a Pond, 1841-1842, salted paper print, Purchased as the Gift of the Richard King Mellon Foundation, 2018.6.2

Winter Trees, Reflected in a Pond

William Henry Fox Talbot · 1841-1842 · salted paper print ·  Accession ID  2018.6.2

Bibliography

1977

  • Arnold, Harry. William Henry Fox Talbot: Pioneer of Photography and Man of Science. London, 1977.

1979

  • Lassam, Robert. Fox Talbot, Photographer. Tisbury, England, 1979.

1980

  • Buckland, Gail. Fox Talbot and the Invention of Photography. Boston, 1980.

1989

  • Ref Number: 1989.494.
    Greenough.1989.494.