Object number1983.24

Ptelea trifoliata [Wafer ash]

Datec. 1845

Artist Anna Atkins (English, 1799-1871)

CultureEnglish

MediumCyanotype

DimensionsImage: 9 15/16 x 7 3/4 in. (25.3 x 19.7 cm)

Credit LinePurchase, E. Powis and Anne Keating Jones, class of 1943, Fund

On View

On view

Period19th c

Classification(s)

Photograph

Terms

InscribedWithin image, by artist, lower center: Ptelia tifoliata / Am[erica (likely)]

ProvenancePurchased from Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery

Vassar Exhibitions

Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

Mastering Light: From the Natural to the Artificial

Exhibition HistoryModeling Femininity: Art and the Moral Education of Nineteenth-Century Women, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, January 27 - March 15, 2000; Mastering Light: From the Natural to the Artificial, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, April 11 - June 29, 2014; Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, September 20 - December 15, 2019; Photography as Data: Augmentation, Extraction, Objectification, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, April 9 - September 15, 2024
DescriptionA light blue thin stem with multiple leaves and flowers against a deep, bright blue background.

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