Top of Sharington's Tower, Lacock Abbey, Taken from the Roof above the South Gallery

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Artist: William Henry Fox Talbot (British, Dorset 1800–1877 Lacock)
Date: October 14, 1840
Medium: Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions: Image: 5 13/16 × 7 1/16 in. (14.7 × 17.9 cm), irregularly trimmed Sheet: 7 5/16 × 8 7/8 in. (18.6 × 22.6 cm), irregularly trimmed
Type: Photograph
Classification: Photographs
Department: Photographs
Credit line: The Rubel Collection, Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee, and Anonymous Gifts, 1997
Accession no.: 1997.382.2

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