Nº 024 · See
Seaweed, in Prussian blue
Anna Atkins’s cyanotype turns a botanical specimen into a delicate arrangement of branching forms.
- Why this number?
- A day of light: a loose nod to the sunlight behind a cyanotype, not its exposure time.
- Credit
- Anna Atkins, Dictyota dichotoma, ca. 1853. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gilman Collection, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2005.
- Original source
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- Reuse and attribution
- Public-domain artwork and image made available under The Met’s Open Access CC0 policy. Terms
- Published
- 2026-09-30T21:51:33.166Z
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