{"product_id":"william-henry-fox-talbot-the-open-door-1844-giclee-print","title":"William Henry Fox Talbot – The Open Door, 1844 | Giclée Print","description":"\u003cp\u003eA broom leaning in a doorway, a lantern on the wall, a bridle hanging beside it, and light falling across the threshold. Nothing happens in it, and that is why it is famous: in 1844 a photograph of an ordinary back door was an argument about what pictures could be about.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Pencil of Nature.\u003c\/strong\u003e Talbot published this plate in the first commercially issued book illustrated with photographs, and wrote beside it that a photographer often finds, in a chance ray of sunshine or a weathered oak, a subject worth recording — that the eye may see poetry where others see nothing at all. The picture is staged, of course: he arranged the broom. But the claim was serious, and every photograph of a plain thing since descends from it.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat this is.\u003c\/strong\u003e A giclée reproduction of a salted paper print, made with pigment inks. Not an original photograph; Talbot's are in museums.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eScale\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eOriginal: 14.3 × 19.4 cm \/ 5.6 × 7.6 in — The Metropolitan Museum of Art\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e35 × 27 cm \/ 13.8 × 10.6 in\u003c\/strong\u003e — Original size, 1:1. Image 19.40 × 14.52 cm.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e40 × 30 cm \/ 15.7 × 11.8 in\u003c\/strong\u003e — Enlarged 1.25×. Image 24.25 × 18.15 cm.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy it stops at 1.25×.\u003c\/strong\u003e The museum's file gives 391 dpi at original size, comfortably above the 300 dpi we hold as the floor, and nothing is upscaled. At 1.25× the print still carries 312 dpi. The floor arrives at about 1.27×, so there is no third size.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe file is the picture, edge to edge.\u003c\/strong\u003e The museum photographed this print cropped to the image — no sheet margin, no mount. So what you get is the picture as catalogued and nothing around it, and the white border on your sheet is ours, not Talbot's. Where the museum's measurements and the file disagree by a millimetre or two, we anchor on the catalogued width.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProvenance\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e William Henry Fox Talbot (British, 1800–1877), \u003cem\u003eThe Open Door\u003c\/em\u003e, before May 1844; salted paper print from a paper negative, 14.3 × 19.4 cm. Plate VI of \u003cem\u003eThe Pencil of Nature\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York — Acc. No. 2005.100.498, Gilman Collection, Purchase, Joseph M. Cohen and Robert Rosenkranz Gifts, 2005.\u003cbr\u003e Public domain. The museum publishes its digitisation as open access.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe print\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Giclée on 200 gsm FSC-certified fine art paper, twelve pigment inks. White border, optical centre. The paper tone of the original is kept, not corrected. Unframed. Shipped rolled in a tube.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFurther reading\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/notes\/why-this-print-is-not-bigger\"\u003eWhy This Print Is Not Bigger\u003c\/a\u003e — how the file, not the sheet, sets the ceiling.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Museartis","offers":[{"title":"35 × 27 cm \/ 13.8 × 10.6 in — Original size, 1:1","offer_id":65797416059229,"sku":"MUS-045-3527","price":49.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true},{"title":"40 × 30 cm \/ 15.7 × 11.8 in — Enlarged, 1.25× original","offer_id":65797416091997,"sku":"MUS-045-4030","price":59.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1102\/7139\/8237\/files\/museartis-talbot-open-door-plate_e5798120-97d6-4f98-bfff-830aa5ad72c4.jpg?v=1788421679","url":"https:\/\/museartis.com\/products\/william-henry-fox-talbot-the-open-door-1844-giclee-print","provider":"Museartis","version":"1.0","type":"link"}