Chateau de Chambord

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Chateau de Chambord

Creator

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
June 16, 1843
Medium
Salted paper print from a Calotype negative
Culture
British
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
77107ba7-5720-4ff8-b49c-5eff81fceed4

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View of the Chateau de Chambord from across a lawn. Logs are arranged in a row across the lawn. The chateau is partially obscured by tall hedges.

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