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Salt print by Roger Fenton, showing a cuneiform clay tablet, previously owned by William Henry Fox Talbot and used by him in an attempt to decipher what was then a lost language.
Details
- Category:
- Photographs
- Object Number:
- 1937-4088
- Materials:
- paper (fibre product)
- type:
- photograph and salt print
- credit:
- Matilda Talbot
