The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné

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Object within Schaaf no. 2362

Gothick arch at Lacock Abbey, taken with a Camera Obscura

Object details

Created: 21 Mar 1840

Image size: h 17.6cm x w 21.4cm

Paper size: h 18.4cm x w 21.8cm

Object Type: Salted Paper Print

Physical description: top corners of negative clipped; with borders

Inscription: in ink, verso, C. Obsc. Lacock Abbey H.F. Talbot 21 March 1840

Provenance:
Talbot gift 1840

Owner: Académie des Beaux-Arts, Paris

Object owner number: 5.e.29 (1840) f 15

Supporting images

This object is part of Schaaf no. 2362

Gothick arch at Lacock Abbey, taken with a Camera Obscura

Location: Lacock Abbey

Keywords: Architecture Landscape

The arch is not true medieval Gothic. It is part of the Gothic revival (also known as Gothick) additions to Lacock Abbey designed as by Sanderson Miller in the eighteenth century.

The Gothic revival additions to Lacock Abbey are discussed in a project blog.