Anna Atkins

Ulva lactuca

ca. 1853 · Cyanotype

A pale branching seaweed specimen against a deep blue cyanotype page, with its handwritten name below. The photograph includes the book edges. — The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gilman Collection, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2005. 2005.100.557 (142).
Museum record · Public Domain / Met Open Access image

From Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions.

The supplied photograph includes the page and book edges. They are retained here.

Source and viewing copies

Smaller full-frame viewing copies are shown; the unchanged museum files remain linked from the images. No crop, retouch or generated view. Museum-master status is unknown.

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