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Artist: Anna Atkins

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  • 1.5 cm black stained ash box frame - stained and waxed
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Dandelion, by Anna Atkins (1799-1871). Cyanotype . England, c.1854. This print is of probably the first photographic portrait of a dandelion. It could even be called a self-portrait, in that the dandelion was placed on light sensitive paper and imprinted its own image under the rays of the sun, without the use of a camera. It comes from Atkins’s finest album, which she presented to her friend and co-photographer Anne Dixon in 1854.

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About the artist
about the artist

Anna Atkins

Anna Atkins was the world’s first woman photographer. She was a botanist as well as a skilled scientific draughtsman, contributing the drawings of shells for her father the zoologist John George Children F.R.S's translation of Lamarck's Genera of Shells 1823. She was also the first person to print and publish a photographically illustrated book, British Algae (1843). She took up what she called ‘Sir John Herschel’s beautiful process of cyanotype’ as soon as it was invented in 1842. To make a ‘photogram’ with the cyanotype process, the photographer laid an object on paper impregnated with iron salts, then exposed the paper to sunlight for a few minutes. When washed in water, the area where the plant had blocked the light remained white, but the area that was exposed came out a rich blue.