The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné

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Object within Schaaf no. 572

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

Object details

Image size: h 13.0cm x w 19.4cm

Paper size: h 18.5cm x w 22.6cm

Object Type: Salted Paper Print

Physical description: embossed oval stamp upper right corner

Provenance:
Daniel Wolf

Owner: J. Paul Getty Museum

Object owner number: 85.XM.150.52

This object is part of Schaaf no. 572

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

Keywords: Ruin

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, 441 and 1607.