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The Castle of Doune

William Henry Fox Talbot

Date: October 1844
Medium: Salted paper print
Culture: British
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

View of a castle in the distance.

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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