Nelson's Column under Construction, Trafalgar Square

William Henry Fox Talbot

Date

first week of April 1844

Type

Photograph

Medium

Salted paper print from paper negative

Department

Photographs

Institution

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Object number

2009.279

Credit

Anonymous Gift and Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts; 2004 Benefit Fund; W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Gift; The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund, through Joyce and Robert Menschel; Susan and Thomas Dunn and Constance and Leonard Goodman Gifts, 2009