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Windsor Castle

Artist:
William Henry Fox Talbot (British, Dorset 1800–1877 Lacock)
Date:
June 1841
Medium:
Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 3/4 × 8 1/8 in. (17.1 × 20.7 cm) Image: 5 13/16 × 6 7/8 in. (14.8 × 17.5 cm)
Classification:
Photographs
Credit Line:
Bequest of Maurice B. Sendak, 2012
Accession Number:
2013.159.62
Not on view
Inscription: Inscribed in pencil, verso BL: "300697.0"
[...]; Harold White Collection; [...]; Marie-Thérèse and André Jammes, Paris; [Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs, New York, sold to Sendak on January 28, 1997]; Maurice Sendak

Schaaf, Larry J. Sun Pictures, Catalogue Three: The Harold White Collection of Works by William Henry Fox Talbot. Sun Pictures. New York: Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs, 1987. no. 55, 57.

Schaaf, Larry J. William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné, Oxford: Bodleian Libraries, 2017. http://foxtalbot.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/.



Essays
The Daguerreian Era and Early American Photography on Paper, 1839–1860
David Octavius Hill (1802–1870) and Robert Adamson (1821–1848) (1840s)
Édouard Baldus (1813–1889)
Gustave Le Gray (1820–1884)
William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877) and the Invention of Photography

Timelines
Great Britain and Ireland, 1800–1900 A.D.

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