Features
Pressed specimen
Rosa Luxemburg: Herbarium
An unconventional herbarium preserving botanical specimens collected by the Marxist thinker
Isolated Photograph
Karl Blossfeldt: Natural design archetypes
Plants' sculptural forms captured through magnified photography
Pressed specimen
Eliza M. French: Seaweed Herbarium
A private collection of algae specimens
Cyanotype printing
Anna Atkins: British Algae
The first photographic documentation of plant specimens
Nature printing
Henry Bradbury: Pioneer of Botanical Nature Printing
Perfected nature prints with plants as printing matrix
Pressed specimen
Emily Dickinson: Herbarium
Pressed plants and poems intertwine in Dickinson’s meticulous Amherst herbarium
Plant Illustration
Pierre-Joseph Redouté: Botanical illustrations
The great botanical illustrator at the french court