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[The Oriel Window, South Gallery, Lacock Abbey] by William Henry Fox Talbot

[The Oriel Window, South Gallery, Lacock Abbey]

William Henry Fox Talbot · 1835

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Artist
William Henry Fox Talbot
Date
1835
Medium
Paper negative
Location
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dimensions
Sheet: 8.5 × 11.6 cm (3 3/8 × 4 9/16 in.), irregularly trimmed
Collection
Photographs
Credit line
The Rubel Collection, Purchase, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee and Anonymous Gifts, 1997
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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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