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[Botanical Specimens]

Attributed to Robert Hunt British
ca. 1841
Not on view
About 1841, at the same time he wrote the first historical account of the two-year-old medium of photography and its much longer prehistory, Hunt experimented with practical uses for photography and applied some variant of Talbot's chemistry to paper, linen, and silk, perhaps seeking a new means of textile decoration. The results look like delicately patterned damask-snippets of coffee- or wine-colored ribbon woven in a floral pattern by the most skilled of artisans.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: [Botanical Specimens]
  • Artist: Attributed to Robert Hunt (British, 1807–1887)
  • Date: ca. 1841
  • Medium: Salted paper and fabric prints
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 11 1/8 × 11 5/16 in. (28.2 × 28.8 cm), album page
    Top Left Image: 4 1/8 × 3 15/16 in. (10.5 × 10 cm), irregularly trimmed
    Top Right Image: 4 1/2 × 3 11/16 in. (11.4 × 9.4 cm), irregularly trimmed
    Bottom Left Image: 1 7/8 × 3 3/8 in. (4.8 × 8.6 cm)
    Bottom Right Image: 2 9/16 × 3 11/16 in. (6.5 × 9.3 cm), irregularly trimmed
  • Classification: Negatives
  • Credit Line: The Rubel Collection, Purchase, Anonymous Gift, 1997
  • Object Number: 1997.382.6
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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