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Object within Schaaf no. 2772

The Open Door

Object details

Created: Between 1 Apr 1844 and 30 Apr 1844

Image size: h 14.3cm x w 19.3cm

Paper size: h 18.6cm x w 21.5cm

Object Type: Salted Paper Print

Mount: album page

Physical description: the print has been varnished, mostly covering the image, but uneven, not to the print borders; bottom right corner damaged

Inscription: in ink, recto, on album page, One of the earliest impressions by H Talbot inventor of Talbotype; difficult to decipher, but written over in pencil, possibly, by H Talbot 4"

Provenance:
David Magee Bookshop

Owner: Art Institute of Chicago

Object owner number: 1960.815.38

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This object is part of Schaaf no. 2772

VI. The Open Door.

Location: Lacock Abbey

This is a close variant of Schaaf number 2821. Notice the difference in the shadow cast across the open door between the two versions.

This is the version which was published in "The Pencil of Nature" (1845).

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