Crafting and collecting cyanotypes: Anna Atkins's <i>Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions</i>

This essay reads Anna Atkins's Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions (1843–1853) as an example Victorian imitative art by reading it through the lens domestic handicraft. It does so in order to resituate work within history scientific visualization and contribute increasing complexity scholars visual culture image have added prevailing accounts rise “objective” nineteenth-century. Building on historians photography, art, science, literature, argues that her cyanotypes point toward alternative a form craft collection resonates with recent calls study practices move “beyond representation.”