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Anna Atkins

Ferns. Specimen of Cyanotype, 1840s

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Medium

cyanotype

Dimensions

overall: 26.3 x 20.8 cm (10 3/8 x 8 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

R. K. Mellon Family Foundation

Accession Number

2007.15.1

Artists / Makers

Anna Atkins (artist) British, 1799 - 1871

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Lower left, label in print: Ferns.; lower right, label in print: Specimen of Cyanotype

Provenance

(Hans P. Kraus, Jr., Inc., New York); NGA purchase, 2007.

Associated Names

Kraus, Jr., Inc., Hans P.

Exhibition History

2009: In the Darkroom: Photographic Processes Before the Digital Age, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009 - 2010, unnumbered catalogue.

2019: The Eye of the Sun: Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019, unnumbered catalogue.

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