Artworks · William Henry Fox Talbot

Trafalgar Square, London, during the Erection of the Nelson Column

1844 · Salted paper print from a calotype

6 11/16 × 8 1/4" (17 × 21 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Seated Figure in the Cloisters, Lacock Abbey

1844 · Salted paper print from a calotype

6 11/16 × 8 1/8" (17 × 20.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Loch Katrine

1844 · Salted paper print from a calotype

6 7/8 × 8 5/16" (17.4 × 21.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Scott Monument Under Construction

1844 · salted paper print from calotype negative

Image: 19.7 x 15.8 cm (7 3/4 x 6 1/4 in.); Paper: 23 x 18.5 cm (9 1/16 x 7 5/16 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Scott Monument before Completion, Edinburgh

1844 · Salted paper print from paper negative

7 3/4 x 6 1/4

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Articles of Glass

1844 · salted paper print from calotype negative

Image: 13.2 x 15.1 cm (5 3/16 x 5 15/16 in.); Paper: 18.6 x 23 cm (7 5/16 x 9 1/16 in.); Matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Nelson's Column under Construction, Trafalgar Square, London

1844 · Salted paper print

Image: 17 × 21.1 cm (6 3/4 × 8 5/16 in.); Paper: 18.8 × 22.5 cm (7 7/16 × 8 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

A Fruit Piece

1844 · Salted paper print from paper negative

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

An Ancient Door, Magdalen College, Oxford

1843 · salted paper print

image: 16 × 20.6 cm (6 5/16 × 8 1/8 in.) sheet: 18.6 × 22.8 cm (7 5/16 × 9 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Orléans Cathedral

1843 · salted paper print

overall: 18.6 x 23.1 cm (7 5/16 x 9 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

The Boulevards of Paris

1843 · salted paper print

image: 16.6 × 17.1 cm (6 9/16 × 6 3/4 in.) sheet: 19 × 23.2 cm (7 1/2 × 9 1/8 in.) mat: 35.6 × 45.7 cm (14 × 18 in.)

National Gallery of Art

An Ancient Door in Magdalen College, Oxford

1843 · salted paper print

overall: 18.8 x 22.7 cm (7 3/8 x 8 15/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Oak Tree

1843 · salted paper print

image/sheet: 22.5 x 18.7 cm (8 7/8 x 7 3/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Articles of China

1843 · Salted paper print

Image: 13.7 × 18.2 cm (5 7/16 × 7 3/16 in.); Paper: 18.7 × 22.4 cm (7 3/8 × 8 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Portrait of Henneman in Profile

1843 · Salted paper print

Image: 8 × 6.3 cm (3 3/16 × 2 1/2 in.); Paper: 11.4 × 9.3 cm (4 1/2 × 3 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Bridge of Orleans

1843 · Salted paper print

Image: 14.3 × 20.6 cm (5 11/16 × 8 1/8 in.); Paper: 15 × 20.6 cm (5 15/16 × 8 1/8 in.); Mount: 25.8 × 31.2 cm (10 3/16 × 12 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

View of the Boulevards at Paris

1843 · Salted paper print

Image: 16.2 × 21.3 cm (6 7/16 × 8 7/16 in.); Paper: 18.4 × 22.2 cm (7 1/4 × 8 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Soliloquy of the Broom

1843 · Salted paper print

Image: 16.8 × 20.6 cm (6 5/8 × 8 1/8 in.); Paper: 17.5 × 21.3 cm (6 15/16 × 8 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

"One of the Towers of Orleans Cathedral, as Seen from the Opposite Tower"

1843 · Salted paper print

Image: 16.2 × 20.1 cm (6 7/16 × 7 15/16 in.); Paper: 18.5 × 22.2 cm (7 5/16 × 8 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Ancient Door, Magdalen College, Oxford

1843 · salted paper print from calotype negative

Image: 16.1 x 20.5 cm (6 5/16 x 8 1/16 in.); Paper: 19 x 22.8 cm (7 1/2 x 9 in.); Matted: 30.6 x 35.6 cm (12 1/16 x 14 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Pencil of Nature

1843 · salted paper print on paper

height: 184 cm, width: 224 cm

Rijksmuseum

A Scene in a Library

1843 · Salted paper print from paper negative

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bust of Patroclus

1843 · Salted paper print

Image: 14.9 × 14.5 cm (5 7/8 × 5 3/4 in.); Paper: 23.2 × 18.9 cm (9 3/16 × 7 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Part of Queens College, Oxford

1843 · Salted paper print from paper negative

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Base of Radcliffe Library, Oxford

1842 · Calotype paper negative

Image/paper: 13.4 × 16.9 cm (5 5/16 × 6 11/16 in.); Mount: 29.6 × 24.9 cm (11 11/16 × 9 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Winter Trees, Reflected in a Pond

1841 · salted paper print

image: 16.4 × 19.2 cm (6 7/16 × 7 9/16 in.) mount: 20 × 24.2 cm (7 7/8 × 9 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

The Process of Talbotype (formerly called Calotype) Photogenic Drawing

1841 · Four pages of unbound text (approximately 2500 words), printed by J. & H. Cox Brothers

22.5 × 18 cm (8 7/8 × 7 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Winter Trees Reflected in a Pond

1841 · salted paper print from calotype negative

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.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Untitled

1840 · Salted paper, from the "Untitled Album"

Image: 15.4 × 21.1 cm (6 1/8 × 8 5/16 in.); Paper: 18.4 × 23 cm (7 1/4 × 9 1/16 in.); Album page: 22.8 × 28.3 cm (9 × 11 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Lacock Abbey, South Front Towards Sharington's Tower

1840 · Calotype print

Image: 17.5 × 21.2 cm (6 15/16 × 8 3/8 in.); Paper: 18.5 × 22.6 cm (7 5/16 × 8 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Copy of Botanical Engraving of "Celtis"

1840 · Salted paper print

Image: 21.5 × 16 cm (8 1/2 × 6 5/16 in.); Paper: 23.2 × 18.7 cm (9 3/16 × 7 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Entrance Lodge, Eaton Hall, Cheshire (Seat of the Marquis of Westminster)

1840 · Salted paper print

Image: 16.4 × 20.7 cm (6 1/2 × 8 3/16 in.); Paper: 18.5 × 22.4 cm (7 5/16 × 8 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

King's College Chapel, Cambridge, South Entrance

1840 · Salted paper print

Image: 17.4 × 16.7 cm (6 7/8 × 6 5/8 in.); Paper: 22.8 × 18.5 cm (9 × 7 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire

1840 · Salted paper print from paper negative

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Leaf Study

1839 · photogenic drawing

sheet (trimmed to image): 10 x 8.2 cm (3 15/16 x 3 1/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Lace

1839 · photogenic drawing negative

sheet (trimmed to image): 17.1 x 22 cm (6 3/4 x 8 11/16 in.) support: 24.8 x 31.1 cm (9 3/4 x 12 1/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Gate of Christchurch, Oxford

1839 · Salted paper print

Image: 16.9 × 19.9 cm (6 11/16 × 7 7/8 in.); Paper: 18.6 × 20.4 cm (7 3/8 × 8 1/16 in.); Page: 25.7 × 23.4 cm (10 1/8 × 9 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire

1839 · Salted paper print

Image: 15.3 × 20.4 cm (6 1/16 × 8 1/16 in.); Paper: 19.7 × 23.9 cm (7 13/16 × 9 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Articles of Glass on Three Shelves

1839 · Salted paper print

Image: 12.7 × 15.2 cm (5 × 6 in.); Paper: 18.7 × 23.2 cm (7 3/8 × 9 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Articles of China on Four Shelves

1839 · Salted paper print

Image: 13.7 × 18.1 cm (5 7/16 × 7 3/16 in.); Paper: 18.9 × 23.1 cm (7 1/2 × 9 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Copy Print From "Celebrated Inscriptions Ancient Eugubine Tablets"

1839 · Salted paper print

Image: 19.9 × 14.2 cm (7 7/8 × 5 5/8 in.); Paper: 22.9 × 19 cm (9 1/16 × 7 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Wrack

1839 · Salted paper print

22 x 17.5 cm (8 11/16 x 6 7/8 in.), irregularly trimmed

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Two Plant Specimens

1839 · Photogenic drawing

22.1 × 18 cm (8 3/4 × 7 1/8 in.); Mount: 29 × 21.5 cm (11 7/16 × 8 1/2 in.); Image/paper: 22.1 × 18.1 cm (8 11/16 × 7 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Some Account of the Art of Photogenic Drawing, or the Process by which Natural Objects May Be Made to Delineate Themselves without the Aid of the Artist's Pencil

1839 · Thirteen pages of text on paper (approximately 6500 words) without illustrations, published by R. & J.E. Taylor, London, 1839

23.2 × 30 cm (9 3/16 × 11 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Ancient Door, Magdalen College, Oxford

1838 · Salted paper print

Image: 7.3 × 6 cm (2 7/8 × 2 3/8 in.); Paper: 9.4 × 7.8 cm (3 3/4 × 3 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

St. George's Chapel, Windsor

1838 · Salted paper print

Image: 16.6 × 19.8 cm (6 9/16 × 7 13/16 in.); Paper: 18.5 × 22.9 cm (7 5/16 × 9 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Bodleian Library

1838 · Salted paper print

Image: 17 × 18.2 cm (6 3/4 × 7 3/16 in.); Paper: 18.8 × 22.5 cm (7 7/16 × 8 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Chess Players

1838 · Salted paper print

19.9 × 15 cm (7 7/8 × 5 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago