The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné

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Object within Schaaf no. 27

All Souls College Chapel, Oxford

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Object details

Image size: h 18.4cm x w 22.6cm

Object Type: Paper Negative-Camera

Physical description: waxed; the edge of chemical coating apparent; chemical spot on the sundial

Inscription: pencil X recto

Provenance:
Matilda Talbot 1934

Owner: National Science and Media Museum

Object owner number: 1937-1847

Collection: Science Museum Collection

Rights and Reproduction

This object is part of Schaaf no. 27

All Souls College Chapel, Oxford

Location: Oxford

This photograph shows the sundial designed by Sir Christopher Wren in its original location between the south-facing pinnacles of the College Chapel before it was placed above the central entrance of the Codrington Library in the College quadrangle in 1877.