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The Tower of Lacock Abbey
Creator
William Henry Fox TalbotPhotographer · 1800–1877
All works by this person →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
- Medium
- Salted paper print from a paper negative
- Culture
- British
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 82d14b1b-bdc1-4c35-83fa-c2fa3ffae288
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View of the corner of a stone building with a tower covered in vines.
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