Henry Fox Talbot
1846, 1 January
Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris

Salted Paper Print
16.3 x 19.3 cm (image)
 
National Science and Media Museum
1937-2410, Schaaf no. 247
 
When this photograph was taken the Portal of the Virgin, on the left of the west facade, was draped in mourning crepe for a high mass for the soul of Pope Gregory XVI (1765-1846).
 
LL/82163