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William Henry Fox Talbot — Cloisters of Lacock Abbey
William Henry Fox Talbot

Cloisters of Lacock Abbey

1841

Atmospheric Gothic arches frame this intimate view of Talbot's family abbey, where dappled light and shadow create one of his most poetically rendered architectural studies.

Medium
Salted paper print

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William Henry Fox Talbot, Cloisters of Lacock Abbey, 1841

Atmospheric Gothic arches frame this intimate view of Talbot's family abbey, where dappled light and shadow create one of his most poetically rendered architectural studies.

Medium
Salted paper print
Year
1841
Seen at
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

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Nineteenth Century, Monochrome, Photography, Serene, Photograph, Historical, British, Architecture, Salted Paper Print, Black and White

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