"Equisetum sylvaticum," Anna Atkins, 1853.

Atkins (1799-1871) was a botanist and photographer, often credited as the first woman to create a photograph, and the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographic images.

Atkin's book, "Photographs of British Algae" was done entirely in cyanotypes, an early form of photography where objects are placed on photosensitive paper and exposed to light. The shaded parts stay white, while the areas in the turned blue.

She later did other cyanotype books, one of flowers and another of ferns, from which this image is taken.

Atkins' husband John was a friend of early photographer William Talbot, and is known to have used a camera, but no documented photographs by her survive.

For the time this was very daring and avant-garde; usually botanic art was detailed drawings. Even today it works as modern art.

From the Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

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Moving into the holiday season now, time to share some seasonal art 🌝 🌲

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For lovers of all things green and slightly abstract! 🙂

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"Two Tulips and Two Irises," Johanna Helena Herolt, c. 1700.

Herolt (1668-Sometime after 1723) was a German botanical artist. She came from a family of artists, with some turbulence in that her parents separated, her mother took her to live in a religious commune, and Johanna later left and married another escapee from the commune.

She collaborated with her mother on a number of botanical works, and later, on her own, illustrated a book on botany, from which this painting is taken. She and her husband moved to Surinam, in South America, where she died sometime after 1723.

And this is so redolent of springtime...I need this visual.

From a private collection.

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