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

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Object details

Created: 21 Mar 1840

Image size: h 17.6cm x w 21.5cm

Paper size: h 18.4cm x w 22.8cm

Object Type: Salted Paper Print

Physical description: top corners of the negative clipped; corners of the print rounded; previously folded down the middle

Inscription: pencil x recto; pencil fx verso; in ink, verso: Lacock Abbey. H.F. Talbot 21 March 1840

Provenance:
Sir John Frederick William Herschel Collection

Owner: Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas

Object owner number: 974:002:001

Rights and Reproduction

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.

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