The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné

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Object within Schaaf no. 913

XVIII. Gate of Christchurch.

Object details

Alternate titles

Plate XVIII, "The Pencil of Nature", fascicle 4, 21 June 1845

Created: Between 1 Aug 1835 and 30 Sep 1844

Image size: h 16.9cm x w 19.8cm

Paper size: h 18.7cm x w 22.7cm

Object Type: Salted Paper Print

Physical description: two bottom and one top corner of the negative clipped

Provenance:
Harrison D. Horblit (HH1825)

Owner: Houghton Library, Harvard University

Object owner number: Horblit TypPr 805.T820.055 Sz1

Collection: Harrison D. Horblit Collection Of Early Photography

This object is part of Schaaf no. 913

XVIII. Gate of Christchurch.

Location: Oxford

Keywords: Architecture

The tower above the gate of Christ Church, designed by Sir Christopher Wren, is known as Tom Tower.

There are blurred figures just visible in the image, caused because people moved around during the long photographic exposure