Physical description: corners torn when the print was removed from an album page, later replaced
Provenance: Fox Talbot Museum notebook no. 1 The British Library, gift of Janet and Petronella Burnett-Brown, 1 March 2006 Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock Abbey, National Trust (00649) Talbot's 1852 Royal Society of Arts album, 1841-1846
This plant specimen is from the Apiaceae (or Umbelliferae) family, which is a large family comprising mostly of aromatic flowering plants, including the likes of celery, carrot, parsley, caraway, dill and fennel.
This photograph was displayed at the Society of Arts, 1852 in Talbot's album "1841-1846"
