Scott Monument Under Construction

Inscriptions

Written in black ink on verso: "LA 26"; in pencil: "P.17"

(Howard Ricketts, Ltd.), London, United Kingdom March 16, 1987: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Exhibition history

The Year in Review for 1987. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 24-April 17, 1988).

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

Artist: William Henry Fox Talbot (British, 1800–1877)
Date: 1844
Medium: salted paper print from calotype negative
Dimensions: Image: 19.7 x 15.8 cm (7 3/4 x 6 1/4 in.); Paper: 23 x 18.5 cm (9 1/16 x 7 5/16 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.)
Type: Photograph
Classification: Photograph
Department: Photography
Credit line: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
Accession no.: 1987.23

"A Scene in York" - York Minster from Lop Lane
William Henry Fox Talbot
July 28, 1845 · Photograph
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00006335
New Hall of Lincoln's Inn, London
William Henry Fox Talbot
c. 1841/46 · Photograph
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00006336
Nelson's Column under Construction, Trafalgar Square, London
William Henry Fox Talbot
April 1844 · Photograph
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00006338
"One of the Towers of Orleans Cathedral, as Seen from the Opposite Tower"
William Henry Fox Talbot
June 21, 1843 · Photograph
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00006339