Live Auction 2279The Miller-Plummer Collection of Photographs
Christie’s roundel
Lot 506

ANNA ATKINS (1799-1871)

Polypodium Dryopteris, 1850-1854

Closed8 October 2009

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USD 13,750

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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.)

Specialist note

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.