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 16.7cm x w 19.5cm

Object Type: Salted Paper Print

Mount: ruled edge mount

Physical description: pale; degree of edge fading

Inscription: in ink, recto, on mount, 18

Provenance:
Victoria & Albert Museum, 2017
National Science and Media Museum, 2003 to 2017
Royal Photographic Society, number 025354
Possibly via B. B. Turner, 1859

Owner: Victoria and Albert Museum

Object owner number: RPS.274-3-2017

Collection: Royal Photographic Society Collection

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