The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné

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Object within Schaaf no. 913

XVIII. Gate of Christchurch.

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Inserted into "The Pencil of Nature", fascicle 4, June 1845

Created: Between 1 Aug 1835 and 30 Sep 1844

Image size: h 16.8cm x w 19.7cm

Paper size: h 18.6cm x w 22.5cm

Object Type: Salted Paper Print

Physical description: one top and two bottom corners of the negative clipped; not mounted

Inscription: in ink verso, lower right: Gate at Christchurch 18

Provenance:
Matilda Talbot (1871-1958), 26 March 1928

Owner: Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History

Object owner number: 3864.04.3

Collection: Photographic History Collection

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