Nelson's Column under Construction, Trafalgar Square

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Artist: William Henry Fox Talbot (British, Dorset 1800–1877 Lacock)
Date: first week of April 1844
Medium: Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions: Image: 17.1 x 21.2 cm (6 3/4 x 8 3/8 in.) Sheet: 18.7 x 22.5 cm (7 3/8 x 8 7/8 in.)
Type: Photograph
Classification: Photographs
Department: Photographs
Credit line: Anonymous Gift and Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts; 2004 Benefit Fund; W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Gift; The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund, through Joyce and Robert Menschel; Susan and Thomas Dunn and Constance and Leonard Goodman Gifts, 2009
Accession no.: 2009.279

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William Henry Fox Talbot
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Museum collection · via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00006335
New Hall of Lincoln's Inn, London
William Henry Fox Talbot
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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
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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.