Cover and Text from "The Pencil of Nature," London, 1844

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

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Artist: William Henry Fox Talbot / English, 1800–1877
Date: 1844
Medium: Paper cover and unbound pages of text (approximately 12,000 words) without illustrations
Dimensions: Paper: 30.5 × 24 cm (12 1/16 × 9 1/2 in.)
Type: Photograph
Classification: ink on paper
Style: 19th century
Place: England
Department: Photography and Media
Credit line: Edward E. Ayer Endowment in memory of Charles L. Hutchinson
Accession no.: 1972.354

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