Description
Nelson's Column under Construction, Trafalgar Square, William Henry Fox Talbot (first week of April 1844).
Salted paper print from paper negative. Original: 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.).
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. Printed from The Met’s Open Access image (CC0). View the original at The Met (object 289387).