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Camera Obscura

William Henry Fox Talbot · 1800–1877

Maximum print size

31.8 × 23.6 cm · 12.5 × 9.3 in

at 300 DPI from the 3,742 × 2,785 px original. Comfortably fills a standard 8×10 inch frame.

Frame: 50.8 × 40.6 cm · 20.0 × 16.0 in
Mat opening: 31.8 × 23.6 cm · 12.5 × 9.3 in
Mat border, sides: 9.7 cm · 3.8 in
Mat border, top and bottom: 8.6 cm · 3.4 in

Colour palette

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Details

Date: 1839–40
Medium: Salted paper print from paper negative
Type: Photographs
Size: 17.2 × 19.5 cm · 6.8 × 7.7 in
Orientation: landscape
Subjects: Sculpture
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗

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