William Henry Fox Talbot
XVI. Cloisters of Lacock Abbey.

CultureBritish
Titles
  • XVI. Cloisters of Lacock Abbey.
  • from the book The Pencil of Nature
Datebefore June 1845
Place depictedLacock, England
MediumSalted paper print from paper negative
DimensionsImage: 6 3/8 × 8 7/16 in. (16.2 × 21.4 cm)
Sheet: 6 3/8 × 8 7/16 in. (16.2 × 21.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number2020.346.9
Not on view

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Photography
ProvenanceParts 1, 3, and 4 given by Lady Elizabeth Fielding (mother of William Henry Fox Talbot) to Rev. Jermyn Pratt, of Ryston Hall, Downham, Norfolk, England; by descent to his son, Edward Roger Murray Pratt (1847-1921); with Francis Edwards, London, 1966 (his catalogue 895); George Rinhart, Patterson, North Carolina; purchased by Miller-Plummer Collection of Photography [Harvey S. Shipley Miller and J. Randall Plummer, Fort Washington, Pennsylvania]; [sold at Christies, NY, October 8, 2009, lot 552]; [purchased by Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2020.
Catalogue raisonnéSchaaf census, no. 51. Individual plates [in order] are Schaaf nos. 1461, 128, 68, 69, 190, 1574, 2771, 74, 312, 3664, 913.

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XV. Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire.
William Henry Fox Talbot
before May 1845
Salted paper print from paper negative
2020.346.8
The Pencil of Nature
William Henry Fox Talbot
1844
Book of salted paper prints from paper negatives
2020.346.1-.11
XIV. The Ladder.
William Henry Fox Talbot
April 1844
Salted paper print from paper negative
2020.346.7
V. Bust of Patroclus.
William Henry Fox Talbot
August 9, 1842
Salted paper print from paper negative
2020.346.5
XIII. Queen's College, Oxford. Entrance Gateway.
William Henry Fox Talbot
April 9, 1843
Salted paper print from paper negative
2020.346.6
III. Articles of China.
William Henry Fox Talbot
1843–1844
Salted paper print from paper negative
2020.346.3
IV. Articles of Glass.
William Henry Fox Talbot
1844
Salted paper print from paper negative
2020.346.4
I. Part of Queen's College, Oxford
William Henry Fox Talbot
1843–1844
Salted paper print from paper negative
2020.346.1
II. View of the Boulevards at Paris.
William Henry Fox Talbot
May 1843
Salted paper print from paper negative
2020.346.2
XVIII. Gate of Christchurch.
William Henry Fox Talbot
before September 1844
Salted paper print from paper negative
2020.346.11
XVII. Bust of Patroclus.
William Henry Fox Talbot
August 9, 1843
Salted paper print from paper negative
2020.346.10
Summit of the Tower of Lacock Abbey, Taken from the Roof of the Building
William Henry Fox Talbot
October 14, 1840
Salted paper print from paper negative
2015.91