About the Artwork
Book of Photographs of British Algae
1843 or 1844
Anna Atkins
1797-1871
English
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Cyanotype
Overall (open volume): 11 × 8 5/8 inches (28 × 22 cm) Overall (closed volume): 11 × 8 5/8 inches (27.9 × 21.9 cm)
Photographs
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Horace E. Dodge Memorial Fund
V2016.2
Public Domain
Markings
Inscribed, in brown ink, on small sheet of paper attached to first page: From Mrs. Atkins ___ | With Mr. Children's kind | regards Inscribed, printed on title page: Photographs | of | British Algae. | Cyanotype Impressions Inscribed, dedication printed in cyanotype, on page 3: To | my dearest Father | this attempt | is affectionately inscribed Inscribed, in pencil, on inside cover: HR, MHC Inscribed, at lower center; Sir Thomas Phillips | Middle Hill coll Inscribed, in black ink, on inside cover, upper center: LXXIV.C.3
Provenance
Dr. Philip Bliss?, rare book collector (Oxford, England, life dates 1787-1857).Sir Thomas Phillipps, book and manuscript collector (Manchester, England, life dates 1792-1872).
1950, Dr. Ernest Weil, rare book dealer (London, England);
1950, Sold privately to Philip Hofer by Dr. Ernest Weil;
1982, Acquired from Philip Hofer by Lucien Goldschmidt (New York, New York, USA);
1983-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA).
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Bulletin of the DIA 61, no. 3 (1982-1983): p. 34 (ill.).
"New Photography Gallery." Printable News (September 1983): p. 3 (ill.).
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