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 16.5cm x w 17.1cm

Object Type: Salted Paper Print

Mount: lavender paper

Physical description: trimmed in to the image; the left edge of the print has been cropped, almost to a square

Provenance:
Harrison D. Horblit (HH1783)

Owner: Houghton Library, Harvard University

Object owner number: Horblit TypPr 805.T820.107 Sz1

Collection: Harrison D. Horblit Collection Of Early Photography

Supporting images

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