Fern

1852

William Henry Fox Talbot

Associated Names
William Henry Fox Talbot

Artist, British, 1800 - 1877

The image shows a large gray fern leaf on a textured, light beige background. The color palette includes shades of gray for the leaf and off-white to beige for the background. The fern leaf is positioned with its stem from the middle of the bottom edge towards the upper left, taking up most of the image space with its detailed fronds.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    photogravure

  • Credit Line

    Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 20.4 × 12.9 cm (8 1/16 × 5 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 25.8 × 16.9 cm (10 3/16 × 6 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2023.33.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Rev. Calvert Richard Jones (British/Welsh, 1802-1877). (Hans P. Kraus, Jr., New York); NGA purchase, 2023.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2023

  • Etched by Light: Photogravures from the Collection, 1840 – 1940, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2023 - 2024

Inscriptions

on verso, by unkonwn hand, lower left corner in graphite: 101984.0001

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