printed 1844Oxford
High Street, Oxford
William Henry Fox Talbot. Calotype. LACMA dates the negative circa 1839 and the print 1844.
Street photograph
printed 1844·Oxford
High Street, Oxford
William Henry Fox Talbot. Calotype. LACMA dates the negative circa 1839 and the print 1844.
Street photograph · Altered
What this plate shows
A street photograph, and an early one: Talbot’s calotype of Oxford High Street, printed 1844. Masonry fronts, a dirt road, trees, a soft dome in the distance. Not a drawing. The print date is 1844. The negative date on the museum record is uncertain.
- Image type
- Street photograph
- Structure
- High Street
- Region
- Europe
- Present status
- Altered — College fronts along the street largely remain. The roadway, the traffic, and the trees do not match the print. The negative’s exact year is LACMA’s “circa 1839,” not a day written on this sheet.
- Source
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, M.2008.40.911. Scale of that scan. Not a redraw.
- License
- Public domain.