The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Photographs

[Bookcase at Lacock Abbey]

William Henry Fox Talbot

Date

1839

Medium

Salted paper print from paper negative

Dimensions

Image: 14 × 19.9 cm (5 1/2 × 7 13/16 in.), irregularly trimmed Sheet: 18.1 × 22.1 cm (7 1/8 × 8 11/16 in.), irregularly trimmed

Object type

Photograph

Classification

Photographs

Object number

2005.100.629

Credit line

Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005

The Met object ID 285921. 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.