[Bookcase at Lacock Abbey]

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Artist: William Henry Fox Talbot (British, Dorset 1800–1877 Lacock)
Date: 1839
Medium: Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions: Image: 14 × 19.9 cm (5 1/2 × 7 13/16 in.), irregularly trimmed Sheet: 18.1 × 22.1 cm (7 1/8 × 8 11/16 in.), irregularly trimmed
Type: Photograph
Classification: Photographs
Department: Photographs
Credit line: Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005
Accession no.: 2005.100.629

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.

"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.