Winter Fronds of the Prickly Fern, c. 1862

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Medium

albumen print

Dimensions

image: 18.5 x 24 cm (7 5/16 x 9 7/16 in.), oval
mount: 34.2 x 51 cm (13 7/16 x 20 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Hans P. Kraus, Jr. and Mariana Cook

Accession Number

2008.14.1

Artists / Makers

Geoffrey Bevington (artist) British, 1838 - 1872

Arthur J. Melhuish (printer) British, 1829 - 1895

Image Use

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Inscription

Lower center, blindstamp: 12 York Place Portman Square (surrounding embossed crest) / A.J. MELHUISH. (below crest); by unknown hand, lower left in ink: Winter Fronds of the Prickly [text crossed out] Fern. / (Polystichum Aculeatum) / Wet Collodion; lower right: G. Bevington Esq. / A.a. [R.A.?] / Prize.; lower right in graphite: 30/57; on verso, lower left, in graphite: x2762

Marks and Labels

lower center, blindstamp: 12 York Place Portman Square (surrounding embossed crest) / A.J. MELHUISH. (below crest)

Provenance

(Hans P. Kraus, Jr., Inc., New York); gift to NGA, 2008.

Associated Names

Kraus, Jr., Inc., Hans P.

Exhibition History

2010: The Pre-Raphaelite Lens: British Photography and Painting, 1848 - 1875, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 2010 - 2011, no. 12.