# @gettymuseum on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CCWqRmenfOT
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34229913-gettymuseum-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/92dec06203.jpg
- **Posted:** 2020-07-07T20:20:57.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty (@gettymuseum) — https://gondola.cc/gettymuseum

## Caption

Anna Atkins was a 19th-century botanist turned photographer who used photographic techniques to record plant specimens. Her publication "British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions" was one of the first uses of light-sensitive materials to illustrate a book.

Swipe to see six other cyanotypes that were all made in 1854 and added to the same album by Anna Atkins as a gift to her collaborator Anne Dixon. The album was dismantled into individual sheets after it was sold at an auction in 1981. Getty's photography collection was founded 3 years later, and happily, these seven were reunited.

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cyanotype, gettymuseum, art, arthistory, provenance, photography

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