Winter Trees Reflected in a Pond

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Winter Trees Reflected in a Pond

William Henry Fox TalbotLinkedCulture matchlcp-75d3e0e60a6f

Date
1841–42
Medium
salted paper print from calotype negative
Culture
England, 19th century
Department
Photography
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
164940

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Talbot captured tree branches flawlessly mirrored on the glassy surface of the pond at his family seat, the 13th-century Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire. A longer exposure, or a lusher season, would have risked a blurred image. The result was a radically abstract composition for its time—a starkly beautiful landscape, as expressive and personal as any painting. Talbot made this image just a few years after he invented the photograph on paper.

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Credit line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Provenance
William Henry Fox Talbot [1800-1877] (the artist), Chippenham, United Kingdom | ?-1930s: Matilda Theresa Talbot [1871-1956], Chippenham, United Kingdom | 1930s: Science Museum, London, United Kingdom | 1970s: Unknown | 1970s-2006: (Robert Hershkowitz, Ltd., Sussex, United Kingdom) | February 27, 2006: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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