The record behind the sheet in your tube: the file we worked from, what we measured, what we chose and why, what we are allowed to sell, and the framing dimensions for this sheet.
Framing this sheet
- 30 × 40 cm sheet
- A 30 × 40 cm frame, no mat. Margins 5.30 cm each side, 6.08 above, 6.99 below.
- 40 × 50 cm sheet
- A 40 × 50 cm frame. Nearest standard 16 × 20 in. Margins 4.87 cm each side, 3.72 above, 4.28 below.
- If you mat it
- Go one frame size up and cut the window three millimetres inside the printed image on every side. Do not trim the sheet.
The sheet you have
- Work
- Anna Atkins (1799–1871) and Anne Dixon (1799–1864), Achrosticum simplex, Jamaica, from Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns, 1853
- Object
- Cyanotype — a photogram, made by laying the plant on paper coated with iron salts and exposing it to sunlight. No camera, no negative, no drawn line. Catalogued image 25.4 × 19.4 cm
- Inscribed
- Lower centre, in the maker's hand: Achrosticum simplex (Jamaica)
- Held by
- The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
- Accession
- 84.XO.227.47 — leaf 47 of the album
- File
- The museum's own IIIF endpoint, at high resolution
- Crop
- [235, 129, 3836, 5324] in [x, y, width, height] → ratio 1.3879, taken where the blue plateau begins on all four sides
- Printed at
- 30 × 40 cm sheet: image 19.40 × 26.93 cm, original size, 1:1 — 502 dpi available
40 × 50 cm sheet: image 30.26 × 42.00 cm, 1.56× — 322 dpi available
Where this album came from
Anne Dixon gave the album to «H. D.» in 1853 — the cover is stamped A. D. to H. D. 1853, probably Henry Dixon. It passed by descent to a niece, Miss Wedderburn; was given to the Girls Friendly Society in Paris in 1932; went through Galerie Octant, Paris and Robert Hershkowitz Ltd.; and reached the Getty through Daniel Wolf in 1984. A single undivided frond, which is unusual in the album and is why this leaf is here: most of the others are lace, and this one is a shape.
What we measured
Our crop gives a ratio of 1.3879 against the catalogued 1.3093. The catalogued image height stops just below the caption while the coated blue paper continues; we reproduce the sheet whole and anchor the scale on the catalogued width of 19.4 cm. The printed image is 19.40 × 26.93 cm. This leaf has the widest album-page edge of the five — fourteen columns of falling brightness before the blue begins — and the crop starts where the blue does.
Condition, measured
All four corners of this sheet are whole and nothing has broken away — worth stating, because the five Atkins algae sheets in this catalogue have lost corners and we print them as they are. Two small readings at the lower edges are all that remains of the album page: 2.7 mm of the bottom edge at the left corner, 0.3 mm deep, and along the last 14.6 mm of the right-hand edge the crop grazes the edge of the coated paper by 0.45 mm — measured column by column, the last nine columns of the file. Both stay, because taking them out would mean trimming the sheet inward, which is what we refuse to do on the Atkins algae and the Hiroshige blocks.
The stalk of the left blade runs off the left-hand edge just above the bottom corner and lies about 9 mm inside the sheet there. The top and right edges are unbroken blue. That is the plant leaving the paper, not a crop decision.
Method, for the record: measured on the museum's file at 19.8 pixels to the millimetre, scanning every column of the top and bottom edges and every row of the left and right edges from the boundary inward to a depth of 20 mm, then seen with the eye — all four corners at about five times the printed size, each edge as a strip 10 mm deep, and the whole sheet. Audited 3 September 2026.
What we are allowed to sell
The work. Made in 1853; both makers died in the nineteenth century. Public domain worldwide.
The photograph. The J. Paul Getty Museum publishes this digitisation under Open Content, with the rights statement «No Copyright». Taken from the museum's own endpoint.
What we do not claim. A giclée reproduction printed with pigment inks. Not a cyanotype: a cyanotype is a contact print made in sunlight, and this is not one.
Please measure before you buy or cut. These figures describe the file we print from. Sheets are cut by machine to about a millimetre and frames vary between makers. We replace a print that arrives damaged or wrong; we cannot replace a frame or mat that turns out not to fit.
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