[The Oriel Window, South Gallery, Lacock Abbey]

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This mysterious view through the diamond-paned oriel window of Talbot's home is one of the earliest photographs in existence\u2014a remarkable relic of the inventor's earliest attempts to make pictures solely through the action of light and chemicals. He brushed a piece of writing paper with salt and silver nitrate and placed it in a small wooden camera stationed on a mantel opposite the window for an exposure that may have lasted hours. The image is tonally reversed\u2014a negative, though the term did not yet exist\u2014as the paper darkened most where it recorded the bright light of the windows.

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