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Winter Trees Reflected in a Pond
Henry Fox Talbot1841–42
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Talbot captured tree branches flawlessly mirrored on the glassy surface of the pond at his family seat, the 13th-century Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire. A longer exposure, or a lusher season, would have risked a blurred image. The result was a radically abstract composition for its time—a starkly beautiful landscape, as expressive and personal as any painting.
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- Title: Winter Trees Reflected in a Pond
- Creator: William Henry Fox Talbot (British, 1800-1877)
- Date Created: 1841–42
- Physical Dimensions: Image: 16.4 x 19.1 cm (6 7/16 x 7 1/2 in.); Paper: 19.8 x 24.8 cm (7 13/16 x 9 3/4 in.); Matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)
- Provenance: William Henry Fox Talbot [1800-1877] (the artist), Chippenham, United Kingdom, Matilda Theresa Talbot [1871-1956], Chippenham, United Kingdom, Science Museum, London, United Kingdom, Unknown, (Robert Hershkowitz, Ltd., Sussex, United Kingdom), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Photograph
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2006.4
- Medium: salted paper print from calotype negative
- Fun Fact: Talbot made this image just a few years after he invented the photograph on paper.
- Department: Photography
- Culture: England, 19th century
- Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Collection: PH - British 19th Century
- Accession Number: 2006.4
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