id:			164940
accession number:	2006.4
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2006.4
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Winter Trees Reflected in a Pond, 1841–42. William Henry Fox Talbot (British, 1800–1877). 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2006.4

title:				Winter Trees Reflected in a Pond
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creation date:			1841–42
creation date earliest:		1841
creation date latest:		1842
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creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	England, 19th century
technique:	salted paper print from calotype negative
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - British 19th Century
type:		Photograph
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CREATORS

* William Henry Fox Talbot (British, 1800–1877)  - artist
William Henry Fox Talbot British, 1800-1877

Born in Melbury, Dorset, Fox Talbot was a gentleman of the 19th century who, like many others of his class, pursued leisure activities in the arts and sciences. He experimented with means for capturing permanently the elusive images formed on paper by the camera obscura, an instrument used as a drawing aid. After several years of varying results, Talbot successfully devised a process that chemically recorded the image made by light on a piece of paper. On February 21, 1839, one month after the announcement of Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre's photographic process, Talbot presented his experiments to the Royal Society in London.
	Talbot's process differed greatly from that of Daguerre. Unlike the daguerreotype's sharply detailed image, the calotype, or Talbotype, was softly blurred; yet because the positive image was made from a negative, it had the advantage of multiple reproduction. This formed the basis of conventional photography.
	A graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, Talbot was a man of scholarly and scientific bent whose interests included optics and botany. Before his work in photography, he also had published on mathematics and linguistics. He later played an important role in the deciphering of Assyrian and other cuneiform inscriptions of interest to biblical scholars.
	Talbot was made a Fellow of the Royal Society at age 32. He is credited with the first photographic negative, which still exists, a view of a set of windows at his home, Lacock Abbey. He invented a form of engraving that was a forerunner of photogravure, as well as other innovations in the quickly growing art form for which he was largely responsible. Talbot's The Pencil of Nature (1844-46) and Sun Pictures in Scotland (1845) are two of the earliest photographically illustrated books. T.W.F.
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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.)
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PROVENANCE

	William Henry Fox Talbot [1800-1877] (the artist), Chippenham, United Kingdom
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	Matilda Theresa Talbot [1871-1956], Chippenham, United Kingdom
	date: ?-1930s
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	Science Museum, London, United Kingdom
	date: 1930s
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	Unknown
	date: 1970s
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	(Robert Hershkowitz, Ltd., Sussex, United Kingdom)
	date: 1970s-2006
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: February 27, 2006
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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: P. 304-305
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	Tannenbaum, Barbara. “From Long Shot to Close-up: A brief history of the photography collection.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>vol. 63, no. 1 (2023): 30-33.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 33.
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IMAGES

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full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2006.4/2006.4_full.tif