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Bowood.

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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
April 25, 1840
Medium
Salted paper print from a photogenic drawing negative
Culture
British
Department
Photographs
Institution
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Object ID
53677eba-27bb-4700-868b-0529cc61f50a
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