The Open Door

Description

Salt print, Plate VI, 'The Open Door', unmounted image, from Part 2 of 'The Pencil of Nature' by William Henry Fox Talbot, Lacock, Wiltshire, England, calotype negative dated prior to May 1844, published 29th January 1845

Museum reference

T.1937.92.6.2

Collection

History of Science

Object name

Salt print

Production information

Talbot, William Henry Fox, 1800 - 1877, Photographer
Lacock Abbey, Lacock, Wiltshire, England, Northern Europe
Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, Publisher
London, England, Northern Europe

Date

Mid 19th century

Materials

Paper

Exhibitions

• Photography: A Victorian Sensation (19 Jun 2015 - 22 Nov 2015)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

Schaaf, Larry (1989) p.83 of the Introduction volume for reference to NMS Copy. 'The Pencil of Nature' Facsimilie Edition New York: Hans P. Kraus, Jr., 1989 (NMSLib: 681.55 FoxTalbot)

Links to other web pages

The Correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot