The Tower of Lacock Abbey

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The Tower of Lacock Abbey

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William Henry Fox Talbot

Photographer · 1800–1877

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In 1833, after failed attempts at drawing using the camera lucida, an optical tool, William Henry Fox Talbot wrote: "[H]ow charming it would be if it were possible to cause these natural images to imprint themselves durably, and remain fixed upon the paper!" Talbot, a scientist, mathematician, and author, is credited with being one of the inventors of photography. In mid-1834 he began to experimen

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1844
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Salted paper print
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British
Department
Photographs
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View of the corner of a stone building with a tower covered in vines.

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