What was the name of the first photograph taken in England, by William Henry Fox Talbot in 1835?

The first photograph taken in England by William Henry Fox Talbot in 1835 was called The Oriel Window. It shows the latticed window in the South Gallery of Lacock Abbey, Talbot’s family home in Wiltshire, and survives as one of the earliest photographic negatives.

Talbot used a small camera obscura and paper treated with light-sensitive chemicals. The resulting image was a negative: bright areas appeared dark, while the window’s lattice and panes were recorded in reverse tones. Talbot later noted that the image was detailed enough for the individual panes of glass to be counted with a lens.

The picture is also called Latticed Window or Windows from Inside South Gallery, which explains some variation in references. It should not be confused with Nicéphore Niépce’s View from the Window at Le Gras, made in France in the 1820s, or with Talbot’s later publication The Pencil of Nature. The Oriel Window is the standard quiz answer for Talbot’s 1835 English image.