All Anna Atkins 's Paintings
The Painting Names Are Sorted From A to Z
Oil On Canvas, Real Flavor of Old Masters
Choice ID Image  Painting (From A to Z)       Details 
38922 Adiantum Capillus Venerum  Adiantum Capillus Venerum   mk141 Cyanotype 25.7x20.1cm
38924 Asplenium ebeneum  Asplenium ebeneum   mk141 34.5x24.3cm Oil on canvas
38925 Gleichenia flabellata  Gleichenia flabellata   mk141 34.6x24.8cm Oil on canvas
38923 Iris Pseudocorus  Iris Pseudocorus   mk141 34.9x24.8cm
Anna Atkins
Tonbridge 1799-1871 Tonbridge,English botanist and pioneer of the photogram and photographic publishing. Daughter of the prominent scientist John George Children, Atkins was encouraged by him in her scientific interests. She was a competent watercolourist and published at least one lithograph. By 1823 her draughtsmanship and observational skills were refined enough for her to produce 200 illustrations for her father's translation of Lamarck's Genera of Shells. Botany was her particular love, especially the collection and study of seaweeds. Her father chaired the February 1839 Royal Society meeting at which Henry Talbot first revealed the manipulatory secrets of photogenic drawing. Father and daughter soon got a camera and took up the new art of photography, but Atkins's biggest contribution to it involved neither a camera nor her father. She conceived the idea of publishing a photographic record of her algae, making photograms by contact printing the dried specimens on sheets of sensitized paper.



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