The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné

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Object within Schaaf no. 1379

Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris

Object details

Created: Between 1 Jan 1846 and 31 Dec 1846

Image size: h 16.8cm x w 19.7cm

Object Type: Paper Negative-Camera

Physical description: waxed

Inscription: 118 in pencil, lower left

Provenance:
The British Library, gift of Janet and Petronella Burnett-Brown, 1 March 2006
Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock Abbey, National Trust (LA3287; 00177)

Owner: The British Library

Object owner number: Talbot Photo 1(43)

Collection: Talbot Collection

This object is part of Schaaf no. 1379

Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris

Location: Paris

Keywords: France Architecture Church

When this photograph was taken the Portal of the Virgin, on the left of the west facade, was draped in mourning crepe for a high mass for the soul of Pope Gregory XVI (1765-1846).