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After publishing her own book of cyanotype photograms of British algae in the 1840s, Atkins collaborated with her childhood friend and fellow scholar Anne Dixon on a second book of photograms. The book, Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns, was published in 1853 and now resides in the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
This particular image is a selection from Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns. A collection of four distinct ferns, it's simply captioned "Ceylon”. At the time these cyanotypes were being made, the island of Ceylon—modern day Sri Lanka—was under British rule. It would be nearly another century before the island declared independence from Atkins’ home country. Despite the abundant difficulties of travel in the 1850s, Atkins’s many scientific and business connections no doubt helped her obtain several foreign specimens for this book of fern cyanotypes.
Ceylon
$30.00
Sale price
$30.00
Regular price
$40.00
This particular image is a selection from Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns. A collection of four distinct ferns, it's simply captioned "Ceylon”. At the time these cyanotypes were being made, the island of Ceylon—modern day Sri Lanka—was under British rule. It would be nearly another century before the island declared independence from Atkins’ home country. Despite the abundant difficulties of travel in the 1850s, Atkins’s many scientific and business connections no doubt helped her obtain several foreign specimens for this book of fern cyanotypes.