13 photographs : albumen prints, on card mounts ; sheets 14.3 x 10 cm, on mounts 16.1 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:12428971
Classification:
Visual Materials
Notes:
James Green was a zoological draughtsman and lithographer who specialized in reptiles and amphibians, and had a particular reputation at the British Museum where he was often asked to produce illustrations of specimens in the collections. There are numerous engravings and chromolithographs attributed to him in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society, for example. He had a longstanding relationship with George Albert Boulenger as the main illustrator for Boulenger's publications. James H. Gardiner was trained as a chemist and worked closely with the London chemist, physicist, photographic researcher, and editor William Crookes, whose pioneering research into electricity and expertise in photography brought him just short of discovering x-rays himself before his German rival Roentgen did. Gardiner was Crookes' lab assistant at the time when these x-rays were made.
