[House and Picket Fence]
Many of the most beautiful, charming, and engaging photographs of the nineteenth century survive today divorced from their original historical context. Calotypes especially, because they were so often made for private purposes, usually lack the printed mounts that commonly identify the subject and maker of photographic views produced for commercial distribution. This inviting scene of quiet domestic life survives in a single, exceptionally well-preserved example acquired by the Metropolitan Museum in 1946 as part of a large group of unidentified calotypes found at Malmsbury House, an estate near Talbot's home, Lacock Abbey.
Artwork Details
- Title: [House and Picket Fence]
- Artist: Unknown (British)
- Date: 1850s
- Medium: Salted paper print from paper negative
- Dimensions: Image: 15.8 x 19 cm (6 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1946
- Object Number: 46.1.64
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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