[Lacock Abbey]

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[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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Date
January 23, 1841
Medium
Salted paper print
Culture
British
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
20523311-989f-4d02-b8a2-9f44bc976d93
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