The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Photographs

[Photogenic Drawing of a Plant]

William Henry Fox Talbot

Date

1839–40

Medium

Salted paper print

Dimensions

21.4 x 18.2 cm (8 7/16 x 7 3/16 in.)

Object type

Photograph

Classification

Photographs

Object number

36.37 (23)

Credit line

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936

The Met object ID 289212. 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.