| 1. |  | Anna Atkins 1852 (ca) Title page from "British and Foreign Flowering Plants and Ferns" Cyanotype 35 x 25 cm Victoria and Albert Museum © Victoria and Albert Museum, London (Ph.379-1981) |
| 2. |  | Anna Atkins 1854 (ca) Adiantum Capillus Venerum Museum Ludwig |
| 3. |  | Anna Atkins 1854 Polypodium crenatum, Norway Cyanotype 32.9 x 23.6 cm National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada Courtesy of the National Gallery of Canada (no. 19712), Purchased 1983 |
| 4. |  | Thomas Eakins 1890-1892 (ca) Standing Nude (Samuel Murray) Cyanotype 4 3/8 x 3 11/16 in (11.1 x 9.3 cm) Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966, Accession Number: 83.108 |
| 5. |  | Unidentified photographer 1899 Dewey Day, Montpelier, Vermont Cyanotype 9.75 in (24.76 cm) x 11 in (27.94 cm) Robert Tat Gallery Courtesy of Robert Tat Fine Photographs (www.roberttat.com - #2420) A group of four richly printed cyanotypes depicting an all-American celebration, mounted to the original album page. |
| 6. |  | Bertha Jaques 1910 (ca) Dandelion Seeds, Taraxacium officinale Cyanotype, photogram 34.6 x 7.3 cm (13 5/8 x 2 7/8 in) American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment |
| 7. |  | Bertha Jaques 1910 Lavender, Lavendula labiatae Cyanotype, photogram 35.6 x 15.9 cm (14 x 6 1/4 in) American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment |
| 8. |  | Bertha Jaques 1910 (ca) Milkweed Pods, Asclepias cornuti Cyanotype, photogram 32.4 x 20.3 cm (12 3/4 x 8 in) American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment |
| 9. |  | Antoinette Putnam Cramer 1905 (ca) Slender Gerardia (photogram) Cyanotype 5 x 4 in (13x10 cm) Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs Courtesy of Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs |
| 10. |  | Unidentified photographer 1880s (ca) Study of Algae (Nitens) Cyanotype 8.5 in (21.59 cm) x 6.5 in (16.51 cm) Robert Tat Gallery Courtesy of Robert Tat Fine Photographs (www.roberttat.com - #2030) A scientific print of algae specimens, in wonderful condition with rich, dark tones (unusual for cyanotypes of this age). Pasted to a backing paper with difficult to decipher handwritten labels on the paper, top and the label "Nitens" in the print, in reverse, lower right. |
| 11. |  | Unidentified photographer 1890s Amblysteglum Cyanotype 8.5 in (21.59 cm) x 6.5 in (16.51 cm) Robert Tat Gallery Courtesy of Robert Tat Fine Photographs (www.roberttat.com - #1752) |
| 12. |  | Unidentified photographer 1910 (ca) Botanical Photogram Cyanotype, photogram 9.5 in (24.13 cm) x 3.75 in (9.52 cm) Robert Tat Gallery Courtesy of Robert Tat Fine Photographs (www.roberttat.com - #2326) A photogram is a camera-less photograph made by placing objects on the photographic paper and exposing it. The method was popular among Surrealists, as the concept of placing objects on paper seemed an extension of Andre Breton's automatic writing. By definition, photograms are one of a kind;, unique photographs; since there is no negative used in making the print, the print cannot be replicated. |
| 13. |  | Lady Hatton [From her album] 1855 (ca) Hypolepis eepeny Cyanotype 33 x 20.4 cm National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada Courtesy of the National Gallery of Canada (no. 39164), Purchased 1998 [Sometimes the work is falsely attributed to Lady Hatton but in reality they came from an album she owned.] |
| 14. |  | Unidentified photographer 1890 Vitraye (France) Cyanotype 61 x 53.7 cm AnamorFose |
| 15. |  | Unidentified photographer 1890 (ca) Nottingham Sample Book #1 (UK) Cyanotype 14.4 x 8.4 cm AnamorFose |
| 16. |  | Unidentified photographer 1890s Lace maker's pattern with lace Cyanotype 10 x 9 in Private collection of Brad Feuerhelm |
| 17. |  | Unidentified photographer 1910 Photogram of a male torso (France) Cyanotype 90.8 x 35.2 cm AnamorFose |
| 18. |  | Unidentified photographer 1890-1900 Rats Cyanotype Private collection of Steven Evans |
| 19. |  | Unidentified photographer 1900 (ca) Saw Mill (exterior with two women) Cyanotype 6.75 in (17.15 cm) x 4.5 in (11.43 cm) Robert Tat Gallery Courtesy of Robert Tat Fine Photographs (www.roberttat.com - #1872) |
| 20. |  | Unidentified photographer 1900 (ca) Saw Mill (large cylinders, foreground) Cyanotype 4.5 in (11.43 cm) x 6.75 in (17.15 cm) Robert Tat Gallery Courtesy of Robert Tat Fine Photographs (www.roberttat.com - #1871) |
| 21. |  | Unidentified photographer 1900 (ca) Saw Mill (machinery and cylinders) Cyanotype 4.5 in (11.43 cm) x 6.75 in (17.15 cm) Robert Tat Gallery Courtesy of Robert Tat Fine Photographs (www.roberttat.com - #1870) |
| 22. |  | Frances Benjamin Johnston 1891 Breaker boys in Kohinor mine, Shenandoah City, Pa. Cyanotype Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division Reproduction Number: LC-USZC4-2322 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZ62-10106 (b&w film copy neg.) |
| 23. |  | Unidentified photographer 1910 (ca) Brick making [1 of 4] [Martin Lancaster, PA] Cyanotype 10 x 8 ins Private collection of Alan Griffiths Part of a series of four cyanotypes numbered in sequence showing a brick making plant. The red company labels affixed to the front of each is for "Martin Lancaster, PA" and the machine in the first of the series appears to be the first shown. We would welcome any further information on the process shown, the dating or the company. |
| 24. |  | Unidentified photographer 1910 (ca) Brick making [2 of 4] [Martin Lancaster, PA] Cyanotype 10 x 8 ins Private collection of Alan Griffiths Part of a series of four cyanotypes numbered in sequence showing a brick making plant. The red company labels affixed to the front of each is for "Martin Lancaster, PA" and the machine in the first of the series appears to be the first shown. We would welcome any further information on the process shown, the dating or the company. |
| 25. |  | Unidentified photographer 1910 (ca) Brick making [3 of 4] [Martin Lancaster, PA] Cyanotype 10 x 8 ins Private collection of Alan Griffiths Part of a series of four cyanotypes numbered in sequence showing a brick making plant. The red company labels affixed to the front of each is for "Martin Lancaster, PA" and the machine in the first of the series appears to be the first shown. We would welcome any further information on the process shown, the dating or the company. |
| 26. |  | Unidentified photographer 1910 (ca) Brick making [4 of 4] [Martin Lancaster, PA] Cyanotype 10 x 8 ins Private collection of Alan Griffiths Part of a series of four cyanotypes numbered in sequence showing a brick making plant. The red company labels affixed to the front of each is for "Martin Lancaster, PA" and the machine in the first of the series appears to be the first shown. We would welcome any further information on the process shown, the dating or the company. |
| 27. |  | Unidentified photographer 1880 (ca) CarriÞre, Normandie Cyanotype 22 x 28 cm Photo Verdeau |
| 28. |  | Unidentified photographer 1910 (ca) Goulds Manufacturing Co. Cyanotype 9 in (22.86 cm) x 11 in (27.94 cm) Robert Tat Gallery Courtesy of Robert Tat Fine Photographs (www.roberttat.com - #1738) |
| 29. |  | Evelyn George Carey 1887, 23 May - 1888, 10 May Queensferry Cantilever As Seen From the South Approach Viaduct, Forth Bridge, Scotland [Forth Bridge, Scotland] Cyanotype CCA: Canadian Centre for Architecture [Text from the CCA - Accesssed: 5th August 2011] http://www.cca.qc.ca/en/collection/660-queensferry-cantilever-as-seen-from-the-south-approach If one thinks of Henri Le Secq, one realizes that sequentiality, discontinuity and the fragmentation of the subject became part of the discourse of photography as he decomposed and recomposed the principal French cathedrals Rheims, Chartres and Amiens, Strasbourg from 1848 to 1853, during the earliest years of the art form. A generation after this project, which was intended to re-present art and history to a society enmeshed in a drastically changing order, the modalities of representation had become the tools through which Evelyn George Carey would prove the grandeur and viability of the gigantesque forms and organizational élan of the new order. The images he made of the total process of constructing the Forth Rail Bridge were intended to redeem the formerly pre-eminent reputation of British engineering, which had suffered in the wake of the collapse of the Tay bridge in 1879, a suspension bridge as was the original Forth Bridge design. A young engineer in the office of Sir John Fowler and Benjamin Baker who redesigned the span as a series of three cantilevers, Carey approached the photographic enterprise from an engineer's understanding. Given privileged access to the construction site, Carey was able to make unique images as he was swung into place and climbed scaffolding carrying an 8 Î 10 inch view camera and the equipment necessary to expose glass plate negatives while standing on temporary platforms. From one cantilever to the next, Carey captured extraordinary views of these structures, whose towers would rise to a height greater than the pyramid of Cheops. Hundreds of numbered and dated albumen prints evoke an organic process as the structure unfolds, from 7 March 1887 to 17 June 1889, according te the speed and time established by the intervals of photographing the growth of the structure. Again a generation later, the idea that the quantity of interval determines the pressure of interpretation and reception, recognized by Sergei Eisenstein in the theory and practice of film montage, led to a new expression of photography. Astounding in themselves, Carey's images, including the cyanotypes the blueprint of architects and engineers permitting annotation such as the demarcation of the crane in the image reproduced here are themselves a bridge as they span the key interval in the conceptualization of motion in architectural representation. - Phyllis Lambert Originally published in Casabella, October 2000 |
| 30. |  | Unidentified photographer 1890 (ca) Sunlit Interior Cyanotype 9.75 x 11.75 in (25x30 cm) Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs Courtesy of Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs (gd43) Numbered "57" in the negative lower right. |
| 31. |  | Unidentified photographer 1910 (ca) Woman in Canoe Cyanotype 4.5 in (11.43 cm) x 6.5 in (16.51 cm) Robert Tat Gallery Courtesy of Robert Tat Fine Photographs (www.roberttat.com - #797) |
| 32. |  | Unidentified photographer 1900 A young girl standing on the deck of a sailing ship (America) Cyanotype 20 x 14 cm Dennis George Crow Courtesy of Dennis George Crow (www.dennisgeorgecrow.com) |
| 33. |  | Unidentified photographer 1880-1890 French saling ship at sea (Off the Coast of Indochine) Cyanotype 16 x 10.5 cm Dennis George Crow Courtesy of Dennis George Crow (www.dennisgeorgecrow.com) |
| 34. |  | Charles F. Lummis 1890 (ca) Mexican Soldiers on Horseback Cyanotype 5 x 8 in (127 x 203 mm) Charles Schwartz Ltd Charles Schwartz Ltd. (#7009) |
| 35. |  | Charles F. Lummis 1900 (ca) Native Americans (probably Navaho) Gathered for Ritual, Southwest USA Cyanotype 4.5 x 7 in (114 x 178 mm) Charles Schwartz Ltd Charles Schwartz Ltd. (#7355) |
| 36. |  | Henri Le Secq 1852 (ca) Farmyard scene, near St.-Leu-d' Esserent Cyanotype, from paper negative 21.7 x 32.2 cm George Eastman Museum Museum Purchase Museum purchase (GEH NEG: 5480, 81:1465:0007) |
| 37. |  | Thomas Anshutz 1880 Boys with a Boat, Ohio River, Near Wheeling, West Virginia Cyanotype 14.6 x 22.2 cm ( 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 in) American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, Object number: 1994.91.3 |
| 38. |  | Unidentified photographer 1915 (ca) Disadvantages of a Trestle Cyanotype 20.3 x 25.4 cm (8 x 10 in) American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment |
| 39. |  | Unidentified photographer 1895 (ca) View of a Stream with Figures Cyanotype 10.5 x 11.1 cm (4 1/8 x 4 3/8 in) American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment |
| 40. |  | Henry P. Bosse 1885 U.S. Towboat "Alert" #159 [Views on the Mississippi River] Cyanotype 10 1/4 x 13 in Lee Gallery Ex. Collin Major A. Mackenzie #159, on verso at bottom, "159" on recto at top. |
| 41. |  | R. Salleron 1889, 25 August Bassin ua grand Trianon Cyanotype 6.75 x 9 in (17 x 23 cm) Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs Signed and titled in the negative "Versailles (Seine et Oise). Dimanche 25 Aout 1889. Bassin au grand Trianon. / R. Salleron". |
| 42. |  | R. Salleron 1890 (ca) Ornamental Wall Cyanotype 9 x 6.75 in (23 x 17 cm) Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs Titled in the negative lower left "Gisors (Eure)". |
| 43. |  | Unidentified photographer 1880 (ca) Boulevard de Belleville, Paris Cyanotype 12 x 15.5 cm Photo Verdeau |
| 44. |  | J. Couyat 1911 Egyptian Grafitti Cyanotype 4.5 x 5.5 in (14 x 12 cm) Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs Cyanotype print, probably unique, of Egyptian rock inscriptions, photograph by J. Couyat from the expedition to Ouâdi Hammâmât, Egypt of J. Couyat & P. Montet, 1911. Number 77 visible in the image. Ouâdi Hammâmât is a remote location in Egypt to which the Frenchmen Couyat and Montet made the first photographic expedition in 1911. A very limited number of cyanotypes were produced on site during the expedition. This image very likely represents the first print of the first photograph ever taken of its millennia-old subject. |
| 45. |  | Unidentified photographer 1875-1889 Photograph of Mount Jackson, Fusilade Mountain, and Mount Reynolds. Cyanotype National Archives and Records Administration [ARC Identifier: 282362] |
| 46. |  | Arthur Wesley Dow 1900 (ca) Landscape Cyanotype 4 3/4 x 6 3/4 Lee Gallery (W1024) |
| 47. |  | Arthur Wesley Dow 1900 (ca) Landscape Cyanotype 4 5/8 x 6 3/4 Lee Gallery (W1025) |
| 48. |  | Unidentified photographer 1900 (ca) Beach at Arcachon Cyanotype 5 x 7 in (12x18 cm) Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs Courtesy of Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs (ia678) Cyanotype of French beach scene ca. 1900, titled in pencil on the reverse "Arcachon la grande plage". |
| 49. |  | Unidentified photographer 1892 (ca) Nevada Falls, Yosemite Cyanotype 6.5 x 4.5 in (17x11 cm) Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs Courtesy of Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs (ha97) Identified and dated in pencil on mount. Probably the work of an accomplished amateur. |
| 50. |  | Charles Ripley (1842-1887) 1880 (ca) Pemambuco, Brazil Cyanotype 5 15/16 x 8 in Peabody Essex Museum |
| 51. |  | Irving Underhill 1900 (ca) Montage of New York scenes on fabric Cyanotype, on fabric 17 x 17 in (43.2 x 43.2 cm) Swann Galleries - New York Courtesy of Swann Galleries (Auction, Dec 7, 2006, #2097, Lot 384) With 9 blue-toned photographic images, including the Brooklyn Bridge, Grant's Tomb, City Hall Park, a view of Broadway from the Dun Building, the Flatiron Building, the Statue of Liberty, Bethesda Fountain in Central Park, Soldiers' and Sailor's Monument and the Sub-treasury. |
| 52. |  | Unidentified photographer 1899 (ca) [Our bedroom in our flat on 116th Street.] Cyanotype Museum of the City of New York X2010.11.5770 |
| 53. |  | Unidentified photographer 1910 (ca) Pierrot (Belgium) Cyanotype 39.4 x 29 cm AnamorFose |
| 54. |  | Unknown (English) 1900 Portrait with additions Cyanotype, clichi-verre Private collection of Brad Feuerhelm |
| 55. |  | Paul Burty Haviland 1905 (ca) Untitled, Woman with Fan Cyanotype Lee Gallery Image courtesy of the Lee Gallery (www.leegallery.com) |
| 56. |  | Frances Benjamin Johnston 1885-1900 Man posed on rocks, nude, playing pipe (Pan) Cyanotype Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division LC-DIG-ppmsc-04880 (digital file from original) |
| 57. |  | Unknown (United States) 1900 (ca) Untitled, Ostriches Cyanotype 3 3/8 x 3 3/8 in (8.5 x 8.5 cm) KaufmaNelson Vintage Photographs |
| 58. |  | Unidentified photographer 1915 Man sleeping on a canon (Homme dormant sur un canon) Cyanotype 8.5 x 11 cm Vintage-Photos |
| 59. |  | Unidentified photographer 1895 (ca) A little girl sitting on a bench outdoors with her doll Cyanotype 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 in J. Cosmas Vintage Photography She has a very endearing, elfin-like quality with her pointed hat, her striped coat with it's capped sleeves and her high-button shoes. Written in pencil on verso of photo is; "Allie Snyder / Neg. No. 47". American school, amateur. |
| 60. |  | Frances Benjamin Johnston 1899 (ca) Girls in bloomers on climbing apparatus, Western High School, Washington, D.C. Cyanotype Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division Reproduction Number: LC-USZC4-2047 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZ62-65804 (b&w film copy neg.) |
| 61. |  | Frances Benjamin Johnston 1900 (ca) Interior of Frances Benjamin Johnston's studio at 1332 V St. NW, Washington, D.C., showing a large camera and props arranged for a portrait Cyanotype Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsc-04831 (digital file from original) LC-USZ62-83155 (b&w film copy neg.) |
| 62. |  | Unidentified photographer n.d. A lady and gentleman on a river bank Cyanotype, stereo Private collection of Gary Dineen |
