The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné

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Object within Schaaf no. 1339

Three Oxford colleges

Object details

Image size: h 9.8cm x w 8.1cm

Paper size: h 10.5cm x w 8.7cm

Object Type: Salted Paper Print

Mount: album page

Inscription: in ink, on album page, in Sir David Brewster's hand, "H.F.T" [Henry Fox Talbot]; in ink, recto, on print, in Talbot's hand, Oriel - Merton - Corpus [in ink, in a later uncertain hand, Ox]; in ink, verso, in Talbot's hand, three Colleges at Oxford

Provenance:
Bischofberger
Brewster Codex

Owner: J. Paul Getty Museum

Object owner number: 84.XZ.574.86

Supporting images

This object is part of Schaaf no. 1339

Three Oxford colleges

Location: Oxford

A corner of Oriel College is pictured in shadow (to the left), with Corpus Christi College (on the right), with the tower of Merton College chapel beyond.

The view is from Merton Street, Oxford, looking East.