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[Botanical Specimen] by William Henry Fox Talbot

[Botanical Specimen]

William Henry Fox Talbot · 1833

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Artist
William Henry Fox Talbot
Date
1833
Medium
Salted paper print
Location
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dimensions
Sheet: 7 3/8 × 4 7/16 in. (18.8 × 11.3 cm), irregularly trimmed
Collection
Photographs
Credit line
Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005
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William Henry Fox Talbot

1800–1877 · Kingdom of Great Britain

The man who invented the negative-positive process, making every photograph ever printed possible.

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