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Winter Trees Reflected in a Pond
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Talbot captured tree branches flawlessly mirrored on the glassy surface of the pond at his family seat, the 13th-century Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire. A longer exposure, or a lusher season, would have risked a blurred image. The result was a radically abstract composition for its time—a starkly beautiful landscape, as expressive and personal as any painting.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineWinter 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
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