Title: Nelson's Column under Construction, Trafalgar Square
Object type: Photograph
Date: first week of April 1844
Artist:  William Henry Fox Talbot 
Artist bio: British, Dorset 1800–1877 Lacock
Artist nationality: British
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions: Image: 17.1 x 21.2 cm (6 3/4 x 8 3/8 in.)
Sheet: 18.7 x 22.5 cm (7 3/8 x 8 7/8 in.)
Classification: Photographs
Credit line: 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
Department: Photographs
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Architecture, term: Columns, term: Cities, term: London