[Street Scene, Paris]

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Artist: William Henry Fox Talbot (British, Dorset 1800–1877 Lacock)
Date: 1843
Medium: Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions: 16.8 x 17.2 cm. (6 5/8 x 6 3/4 in.)
Type: Photograph
Classification: Photographs
Department: Photographs
Credit line: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift through Joyce and Robert Menschel, Harrison D. Horblit Gift and The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1988
Accession no.: 1988.1018

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

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.