Anna Atkins

Lot 506: ANNA ATKINS (1799-1871)

Name: ANNA ATKINS (1799-1871)
Brand: Christie's
SKU: 555be37f71

Est: $6,000 USD - $8,000 USDSold:

Christie'sNew York, NY, USOctober 08, 2009

Item Overview

Description

ANNA ATKINS (1799-1871)
Polypodium Dryopteris, 1850-1854
unique cyanotype photogram
title (in the image)
12¾ x 8 7/8in. (32.5 x 22.5cm.)

Artist or Maker

Anna Atkins

Exhibited

George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, Particulars, 1983

Literature

Particulars, pl. 169, p. 51

Notes

This is most likely from the album 'Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Flowers, Plants and Ferns', compiled by Atkins and given to Anne Dixon in 1854, sold at auction in London in 1981 (Sotheby's, London, 28 October 1981, lot 220) and subsequently broken up. See: Schaaf, Sun Gardens: Victorian Photograms by Anna Atkins, Aperture, 1985, p. 44, census no. 15.

Auction Details

The Miller-Plummer Collection of Photographs

Christie's

October 08, 2009, 12:00 AM EST

20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY, 10020, US

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