{"title":"Natural History","description":"\u003cp\u003eVintage natural history prints: birds, shells, insects, ferns and seaweed, from Dürer to Audubon and Regenfuss. Antique scientific illustration for a wall, printed at original scale.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"albrecht-durer-the-rhinoceros-1515-giclee-print","title":"Albrecht Dürer – The Rhinoceros, 1515 | Giclée Print","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn May 1515 a rhinoceros arrived in Lisbon, a gift from the Sultan of Cambay to King Manuel I of Portugal. Word travelled north with a letter and a rough sketch. Dürer, in Nuremberg, never laid eyes on the animal. He cut this woodcut from the description alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe got things wrong. The plates of skin become riveted armour. A second small horn sprouts from the shoulder. The legs are scaled like a lizard's. 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The bird stands over four feet tall. The page he was working to — the double elephant folio, the largest book anyone had seriously attempted — measured about thirty-nine inches by twenty-six. It was not enough.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo he bent the bird. The flamingo lowers its head to the water in a curve that fills the sheet corner to corner, neck folded back on itself, the whole animal compressed into the only rectangle available. It is a solution to a printing problem, and it produced one of the most recognisable images in ornithology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbove the bird, small and precise, Audubon set nine studies: the beak seen from several angles and opened in section, and the webbed foot. He was a hunter and a showman, but he was also keeping notes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eScale\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nMost print shops stretch any image onto any sheet without comment. We do not. Audubon's folio is larger than any sheet we print, so this one goes the other way: both sizes are reductions, and the factor is named.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe print\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nGiclée on 200 gsm FSC-certified fine art paper, twelve pigment inks. White border, optical centre. The paper tone and hand-colouring of the original are kept, not corrected. Unframed. 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She laid a piece of dried seaweed on paper coated with iron salts, put it in the sun, and rinsed it in water. What the plant covered stayed white. Everything else turned Prussian blue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe did this several thousand times. Between 1843 and 1853 she produced \u003cem\u003ePhotographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions\u003c\/em\u003e — the first book in history illustrated with photographs, published eight months before Talbot's \u003cem\u003ePencil of Nature\u003c\/em\u003e. Perhaps twenty-five copies were ever assembled, each plate printed by hand, each caption written by hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe was a botanist, not an artist, and the intention was documentary: a visual key to species that line engraving rendered badly. The result is something else. A brown-branched alga on white paper is a specimen. 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Shipped rolled in a tube.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProvenance\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnna Atkins (1799–1871), \u003cem\u003eDictyota dichotoma, in the young state; and in fruit\u003c\/em\u003e, from \u003cem\u003ePhotographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions\u003c\/em\u003e, 1843–1853; cyanotype, leaf approx. 27 × 21 cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhere this comes from\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe museum file, the measurements, and what we are allowed to sell: \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/sheet-record-dictyota-dichotoma\"\u003ethe record for this sheet\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFurther reading\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/notes\/why-this-print-is-not-bigger\"\u003eWhy This Print Is Not Bigger\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Museartis","offers":[{"title":"30 × 40 cm \/ 11.8 × 15.7 in — Original size, 1:1","offer_id":65752620237149,"sku":"MUS-004-3040","price":49.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true},{"title":"50 × 70 cm \/ 19.7 × 27.6 in — Enlarged, 2.1× original","offer_id":65752620269917,"sku":"MUS-004-5070","price":89.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1102\/7139\/8237\/files\/museartis-atkins-dictyota-plate-v2.jpg?v=1788200361"},{"product_id":"anna-atkins-ptilota-plumosa-1853-giclee-print","title":"Anna Atkins – Ptilota plumosa, 1853 | Giclée Print","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePtilota plumosa\u003c\/em\u003e is a red alga that grows in fine, opposite branches, like a feather cut from wire. Under the sun, on iron-salted paper, it left this: a white plume on Prussian blue, every side branch separated, nothing drawn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnna Atkins made her images without a camera. She laid the dried plant on coated paper, exposed it to daylight and rinsed it in water. Between 1843 and 1853 she did this several thousand times and produced \u003cem\u003ePhotographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions\u003c\/em\u003e — the first book in history illustrated with photographs. Perhaps twenty-five copies were ever assembled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat this is.\u003c\/strong\u003e A giclée reproduction of one of Atkins's cyanotypes, printed with pigment inks. 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Laid on sensitised paper and left in the sun, it printed as a chain of pale leaves — a plant that looks drawn, and was not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnna Atkins made her images without a camera. She laid the dried plant on coated paper, exposed it to daylight and rinsed it in water. Between 1843 and 1853 she did this several thousand times and produced \u003cem\u003ePhotographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions\u003c\/em\u003e — the first book in history illustrated with photographs. Perhaps twenty-five copies were ever assembled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat this is.\u003c\/strong\u003e A giclée reproduction of one of Atkins's cyanotypes, printed with pigment inks. 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Dried and laid on the sensitised paper, it printed as one luminous mass, closer to a cloud than to a plant. It is the least plant-like picture in the whole album, and the most modern.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnna Atkins made her images without a camera. She laid the dried plant on coated paper, exposed it to daylight and rinsed it in water. Between 1843 and 1853 she did this several thousand times and produced \u003cem\u003ePhotographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions\u003c\/em\u003e — the first book in history illustrated with photographs. Perhaps twenty-five copies were ever assembled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat this is.\u003c\/strong\u003e A giclée reproduction of one of Atkins's cyanotypes, printed with pigment inks. 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The format is \u003cem\u003eōtanzaku\u003c\/em\u003e — a tall, narrow panel of about 38 by 17.5 centimetres, the shape used for poem-slips and for pictures meant to hang in the narrow space between two posts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHiroshige is remembered for landscapes, but he made hundreds of bird-and-flower panels like this one, and they are the sheets in which his colour is boldest: a flat teal ground, the pink of the peonies laid on in two strengths, the eyes of the tail feathers printed in a blue that still reads as metal. The poem in the upper left belongs to the design, not to the catalogue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat this is.\u003c\/strong\u003e A giclée reproduction printed with pigment inks. 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The format is \u003cem\u003eōtanzaku\u003c\/em\u003e — a tall, narrow panel of about 38 by 17.3 centimetres, the shape used for poem-slips and for pictures meant to hang in the narrow space between two posts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHiroshige is remembered for landscapes, but he made hundreds of bird-and-flower panels like this one. The snow in them is not painted on: it is the paper itself, left unprinted — the drift on each leaf, the breasts of the birds, the flakes in the air. The picture is built out of what the blocks were cut to leave alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat this is.\u003c\/strong\u003e A giclée reproduction printed with pigment inks. 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Both are drawn from the 400 dpi scan of the Zurich copy, and both keep the narrow band of the old laid paper that surrounds the printed area.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe print\u003c\/strong\u003e — 200 gsm matte fine art paper, pigment inks, a white margin on all four sides, unframed, shipped rolled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhere this comes from\u003c\/strong\u003e — Franz Michael Regenfuss (1712–1780), \u003cem\u003eAuserlesne Schnecken, Muscheln und andre Schaalthiere \/ Choix de Coquillages et de Crustacés\u003c\/em\u003e, Copenhagen 1758, plate IV, hand-coloured engraving after Gabriel Müller, from an original copy. The museum file, the measurements, and what we are allowed to sell: \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/sheet-record-regenfuss-plate-iv\"\u003ethe record for this sheet\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the same series\u003c\/strong\u003e — \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/shell-plates-regenfuss\"\u003eShell Plates — Regenfuss 1758\u003c\/a\u003e: three sheets from the same folio, built to hang together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFurther reading\u003c\/strong\u003e — \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/notes\/why-this-print-is-not-bigger\"\u003eWhy This Print Is Not Bigger\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Museartis","offers":[{"title":"40 × 50 cm \/ 15.7 × 19.7 in — Reduced, 0.80× original","offer_id":65943003660637,"sku":"MUS-072-4050","price":59.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true},{"title":"50 × 70 cm \/ 19.7 × 27.6 in — Original size, 1:1","offer_id":65943003693405,"sku":"MUS-072-5070","price":89.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1102\/7139\/8237\/files\/museartis-MUS-072-plate-v2.jpg?v=1789643928"},{"product_id":"franz-michael-regenfuss-shells-plate-vii-from-choix-de-coquillages-et-de-crustaces-1758-giclee-print","title":"Franz Michael Regenfuss – Shells, Plate VII from Choix de Coquillages et de Crustacés, 1758 | Giclée Print","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the quietest of the three sheets and the most strictly built: a red scallop at the head and a pale fluted one below it hold the axis, and the rest of the shells are set out left and right in mirrored pairs, frilled murex against frilled murex, cone against cone. Regenfuss numbered each one in the margin for collectors who wanted to identify what they had bought. It was cut and coloured in Copenhagen in 1758 for his folio of shells, printed with a royal privilege that is named in the caption line at the bottom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat this is\u003c\/strong\u003e — A giclée reproduction of a hand-coloured engraving, printed on fine art paper. It is not an original print, and it is not sold as one. The paper tone of the original is kept, not corrected.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eScale\u003c\/strong\u003e — On the 50 × 70 sheet the plate is printed at its original size, 28.7 × 42.6 cm. On the 40 × 50 sheet the same picture is reduced to 0.80×, 23.0 × 34.1 cm. Both are drawn from the 400 dpi scan of the Zurich copy, and both keep the narrow band of the old laid paper that surrounds the printed area.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe print\u003c\/strong\u003e — 200 gsm matte fine art paper, pigment inks, a white margin on all four sides, unframed, shipped rolled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhere this comes from\u003c\/strong\u003e — Franz Michael Regenfuss (1712–1780), \u003cem\u003eAuserlesne Schnecken, Muscheln und andre Schaalthiere \/ Choix de Coquillages et de Crustacés\u003c\/em\u003e, Copenhagen 1758, plate VII, hand-coloured engraving after Gabriel Müller, from an original copy. The museum file, the measurements, and what we are allowed to sell: \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/sheet-record-regenfuss-plate-vii\"\u003ethe record for this sheet\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the same series\u003c\/strong\u003e — \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/shell-plates-regenfuss\"\u003eShell Plates — Regenfuss 1758\u003c\/a\u003e: three sheets from the same folio, built to hang together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFurther reading\u003c\/strong\u003e — \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/notes\/why-this-print-is-not-bigger\"\u003eWhy This Print Is Not Bigger\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Museartis","offers":[{"title":"40 × 50 cm \/ 15.7 × 19.7 in — Reduced, 0.80× original","offer_id":65943041868125,"sku":"MUS-073-4050","price":59.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true},{"title":"50 × 70 cm \/ 19.7 × 27.6 in — Original size, 1:1","offer_id":65943041900893,"sku":"MUS-073-5070","price":89.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1102\/7139\/8237\/files\/museartis-MUS-073-plate-v2.jpg?v=1789644058"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1102\/7139\/8237\/collections\/museartis-durer-rhinoceros-plate.jpg?v=1788261244","url":"https:\/\/museartis.com\/collections\/natural-history.oembed","provider":"Museartis","version":"1.0","type":"link"}