Yale Center for British Art
Title:
Photogram of ferns.
Published / Created:
Great Britain, 1860s?
Physical Description:
1 photograph : albumen print, photogram ; 33 x 24 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:13922653
Classification:
Photographs
Notes:
The image depicts 21 small specimens of ferns arrayed symmetrically across the sheet. The image is in the spirit of -- and perhaps influenced by -- the photograms produced in Anna Atkins' Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns (1853).
Subject Terms:
Ferns. | Natural history -- Great Britain.
Form/Genre:
Photograms. | Albumen prints. | Photographs.