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[Botanical Specimen]
Quick Overview
- Artist
- William Henry Fox Talbot (British, Dorset 1800–1877 Lacock)
- Date
- ca. 1835
- Medium
- Salted paper print
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 7 3/8 × 4 7/16 in. (18.8 × 11.3 cm), irregularly trimmed
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- Photographs
- Department
- Photographs
- Credit line
- Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005
- Accession no.
- 2005.100.840
Provenance
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s open-access data does not include an ownership history for this work. See the museum’s page for this work.
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