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Selected images from the Hatton Fern Album
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Selected images from the Hatton Fern Album
5 cyantotype prints. Circa 1850. Each with title in Latin and numbers (for plant cross-sections) in the negative; each with title and plate number in ink in the margin.
Each approximately 8½ x 6½in. (21.6 x 16.5cm.)
Selected images from the Hatton Fern Album
5 cyantotype prints. Circa 1850. Each with title in Latin and numbers (for plant cross-sections) in the negative; each with title and plate number in ink in the margin.
Each approximately 8½ x 6½in. (21.6 x 16.5cm.)
Further details
The lot forms part of the Hatton Fern Album, so-called because of it's ownership in the early 1900s by John Hatton, Curator of the Spa at Bath and a keen amateur botanist. The album is indicative of the Victorian passion for ferns and, complete, contained an unusual combination of nature prints, cyanotypes and the original ferns used to make many of the cyanotypes. The album's maker remains mysterious; it may have been Anne Atkins or, more likely, one of her circle.
Sale room notice
Please note that these cyanotype studies do not form part of the Hatton Fern Album. They are an anonymous group of botanical algae plates, dating from c. 1880.