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

Object Type: Salted Paper Print

Mount: Pencil of Nature page with ruled edge

Provenance:
Helmut and Alison Gernsheim
Sotheby's Auction, 20 January 1958
Marquis Northampton

Owner: Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas

Object owner number: 964:0309:0018

Collection: Gernsheim 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