William Henry Fox Talbot Album 14

Made:: 1843-1844 in Oxford

maker:: William Henry Fox Talbot

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Small hardcover photograph album compiled by William Henry Fox Talbot during a trip to Oxford in 1843-1844. 37 plates with salt prints and descriptions written in black ink below each photograph. Inside of front cover has bookplate 'The Pencil of Nature'.

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Category:: Photographs

Object Number:: 1937-2531

Materials:: paper (fibre product), cardboard, paint and ink

Measurements:: overall (closed): 151 mm x 178 mm

type:: photograph albums

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Merton College, Oxford, 1843

An early photographic view of Merton College, Oxford taken by William Henry Fox Talbot in 1843. It is a salt print from a calotype (paper negative) and comes from an album mostly containing photographic views of Oxford by both William Henry Fox Talbot and Nicolaas Henneman.