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Winter Trees Reflected in a Pond

1841–42

William Henry Fox Talbot

(British, 1800–1877)
Culture
England, 19th century
Medium
salted paper print from calotype negative
Measurements
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.)
Credit Line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2006.4
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
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Did You Know?

Talbot made this image just a few years after he invented the photograph on paper.

Description

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.
A black and white photograph of foliage and its mirrored reflection in a lake. The foliage is sparse with silhouettes of the skeletons of trees.

Winter Trees Reflected in a Pond

1841–42

William Henry Fox Talbot

(British, 1800–1877)
England, 19th century

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