The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné

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Object within Schaaf no. 441

Copy of an etching or engraving, rustic view of a lakeside Gothic ruin

Object details

Image size: h 12.7cm x w 19.4cm

Object Type: Paper Negative-Camera

Physical description: waxed; side edges are 12.5 cm and 12.7 cm high

Provenance:
Matilda Talbot 1934

Owner: National Science and Media Museum

Object owner number: 1937-3301

Collection: Science Museum Collection

This object is part of Schaaf no. 441

Copy of an etching or engraving, rustic view of a lakeside Gothic ruin

Keywords: Landscape

The image depicts an arched building in ruin with small boats moored nearby.

Possibly Neath Abbey in Wales, which offers similar views of a medieval ruin reflected in water from the nearby Tennant Canal.

It is a variant of Schaaf numbers 432, 572 and 1607.