The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné

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Object within Schaaf no. 2736

XII. The Bridge of Orleans.

Object details

Alternate titles

Plate XII, "The Pencil of Nature", fascicle 2, 29 January 1845

Created: 14 Jun 1843

Object Type: Salted Paper Print

Mount: ruled edge mount

Physical description: pale; printed before the negative was spoiled by two pale spots in the area of the bridge

Inscription: 12 in pencil on mount, bottom right, recto

Provenance:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Jean Horblit, in memory of Harrison D. Horblit, 1994
Harrison D. Horblit, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Christie's South Kensington, London sale October 1984
Constance Stewart (1863-1944)
Matilda Talbot (later Gilchrist Clark, 1839-1927)

Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Object owner number: 1994.197.2 (7)