A pale branching seaweed specimen against a deep blue cyanotype page, with its handwritten name below. The photograph includes the book edges.
Ulva lactuca · Anna Atkins, ca. 1853

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gilman Collection, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2005. Public Domain / Met Open Access image. About the work, sources and viewing copies.

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