Cystoseria granulata

1843 or 1844

Anna Atkins English, 1797-1871

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About the Artwork

Anna Atkins was one of the earliest photographers to experiment with cyanotypes, creating this work just a year or two after the process had been invented by Sir John Herschel in 1842. Combining her interests in botany, photography, and artistic expression, Atkins used the blue-print process to record intimate details of specimens from the seas surrounding the British Isles, which she privately published in her book Photographs of British Algae. Atkins gave her books to friends and family interested in botany.
The Detroit Institute of Arts was one of the first major art museums to acquire Photographs of British Algae.

Title Cystoseria granulata

Artwork Date 1843 or 1844

Artist Anna Atkins

Life Dates 1797-1871

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. English

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Medium Cyanotype

Dimensions Page: 10 3/8 × 8 1/8 inches (26.4 × 20.6 cm)

Classification Photographs

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Horace E. Dodge Memorial Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. F1983.12.8

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Inscriptions Inscribed, lower center: Cystoseria granulata

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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Hans Sebald Beham

ca. 1539

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