The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Photographs

[The Reading Establishment]

Nicolaas Henneman|William Henry Fox Talbot

Date

1846

Medium

Salted paper prints from paper negatives

Dimensions

Left image: 18.6 x 22.4 cm (7 5/16 x 8 13/16 in.) Right image: 18.1 × 22 cm (7 1/8 × 8 11/16 in.) Overall sheet: 19.9 × 49.1 cm (7 13/16 × 19 5/16 in.)

Object type

Photograph

Classification

Photographs

Object number

2005.100.171.1, .2

Credit line

Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005

The Met object ID 283065. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.