[An entrance surrounded by trees, (?)Lacock.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Genre: Landscape Photography A very faint print showing a wall hidden by trees; to the extreme left there seems to be an entrance, but it is unclear if this is a building or a walled part of the grounds at Lacock. Chemistry float-applied on paper 181 x 226 mm.
[Gable and finial, Lacock Abbey.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of the end section of the roof, with a finial sculpture of an animal. Chemistry float-applied on paper 170 x 226 mm.
[Roof, Lacock Abbey.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Inscription: Inscribed in ink by Talbot by bottom right of image: 'Sept 1840' and in bottom left of paper: '5' Cloudy'. Genre: Architectural Photography View looking up towards a section of the roof, showing a dormer window and two chimneys. This is the earliest dated calotype, Talbot wrote ab...
[The South Gallery, Lacock Abbey.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Genre: Architectural Photography A view along the interior of the gallery towards the Blue Parlour, with the large fireplace in the left foreground and light streaming in from the windows along the right. Chemistry float-applied on paper 187 x 228 mm. For a discussion of this image, see Larry...
[Fireplace, South Gallery, Lacock Abbey.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Inscription: Inscribed in a modern hand on album page, '3 Oct 1840.' Genre: Architectural Photography An oblique view of the fireplace in the South Gallery with two fire guards at right, a painting above and a smaller painting to the left. Chemistry float-applied on paper 180 x 220 mm.
[Botanical Gardens, Oxford.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View across the botanical gardens towards the hothouse, with Magdalen Tower in the background to the left. A faded image. Chemistry float-applied on paper 190 x 226 mm.
[Open window, Lacock Abbey.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking upwards towards a partially opened sash window of the Blue Parlour, on the south façade of Lacock Abbey. Paper watermarked 'J Whatman 1840'. Chemistry float-applied on paper 185 x 227 mm.
[Garden folly, Bowood.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of the doric portico and pediment of the building. Paper trimmed to size of image and diagonally trimmed at corners.
[Founder's Tower, Magdalen College, Oxford.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of an upper section of the Founder's Tower, taken from a window of the cloisters courtyard opposite. Chemistry float-applied on paper 182 x 223 mm.