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[The Oriel Window, South Gallery, Lacock Abbey]
Details
- Palette
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- Medium
- Paper negative
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 8.5 × 11.6 cm (3 3/8 × 4 9/16 in.), irregularly trimmed
- Department
- Photographs
- Holding institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Image provider
- metropolitan-museum-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- The Rubel Collection, Purchase, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee and Anonymous Gifts, 1997
Art Genome Taxonomy
8 tags
Visual Qualities
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Dark Colors Visual · 90%
The photographic area is predominantly a deep, muted gray-brown tonal field, with only faint lighter variations and pale margins.
Medium and Techniques
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Photography Both · 99%
The Metropolitan Museum of Art classifies the work as a paper negative in the Department of Photographs, and the image visibly presents a photographic tonal record on a sheet.
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Negative Image Metadata · 99%
The catalog explicitly identifies the medium as paper negative.
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Traditional Photographic Techniques Metadata · 91%
The paper-negative process and probable 1835 date identify this as an early, traditional photographic technique.
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Black-and-White Photography Visual · 96%
The image is rendered through a restricted monochrome range of gray, brown-gray, and pale tones, without visible color information in the depicted view.
Time Periods
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19th Century Art Metadata · 97%
The catalog gives the date as probably 1835, placing the work within nineteenth-century art.
Geographic Regions
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British and Irish Art Metadata · 91%
William Henry Fox Talbot is identified in the catalog as British.
Materials
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Use of Paper Metadata · 99%
The catalog identifies the object as a sheet of paper and records its dimensions as an irregularly trimmed sheet.
Source & rights
William Henry Fox Talbot. [The Oriel Window, South Gallery, Lacock Abbey]. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.