William Henry Fox Talbot (11 February 1800 – 17 September 1877) was a British inventor and a pioneer of photography.
He was the inventor of calotype process, the precursor to most photographic processes of the 19th and 20th centuries.
He was also a noted photographer who made major contributions to the development of photography as an artistic medium.

(Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Talbot)

The latticed window in my image is the same one featured in a photo taken by Talbot in 1835.
The negative is thought to be the oldest photographic negative in existence.

(See here for a digitised version of the print: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Latticed_window_at_lacock_abbey_1835.jpg)