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.
The sheet you have
- Work
- Anna Atkins (1799–1871) and Anne Dixon (1799–1864), Osmunda regalis, British, 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 left, in the maker's hand: Osmunda regalis. British
- Held by
- The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
- Accession
- 84.XO.227.42 — leaf 42 of the album
- File
- The museum's own IIIF endpoint, 4436 × 5567 px
- Crop
- [401, 124, 3882, 5323] → ratio 1.3712, taken where the blue plateau begins on all four sides
- Printed at
- 30 × 40 cm sheet: image 19.40 × 26.60 cm, original size, 1:1 — 508 dpi available
40 × 50 cm sheet: image 30.63 × 42.00 cm, 1.58× — 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. The royal fern is the largest British species, and this leaf shows why the format was chosen: the frond only just fits the page.
What we measured
Our crop gives a ratio of 1.3712 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 × 26.60 cm. The album page edge shows on the left as a bright line and then a shadow trough before the blue begins; the crop starts where the blue does, so neither is in your print.
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.
Framing this sheet
- 30 × 40 cm sheet
- A 30 × 40 cm frame, no mat. Margins 5.30 cm each side, 6.23 above, 7.17 below.
- 40 × 50 cm sheet
- A 40 × 50 cm frame. Nearest standard 16 × 20 in. Margins 4.69 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.
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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