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   Ele Willoughby, PhD (minouette@spore.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Sep-2024 01:49:53 JST Ele Willoughby, PhD

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   and two further volumes in the next decade. She collaborated with Anne Dixon (1799–1864) to produce further books of cyanotypes on ferns and flowering plants and also published other non-scientific or photographic books.

   My portrait combines a #linocut of her and a cyanotype of fern leaves like those she made!

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     Ele Willoughby, PhD (minouette@spore.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Sep-2024 01:49:54 JST Ele Willoughby, PhD

     For #WorldCyanotypeDay I am sharing my portrait of English botanist & photographer Anna Atkins (1799-1871), née Children who published the first book with photographs. She made photograms with algae specimen placed directly on paper treated with photochemicals in Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions in October 1843, 🧵1/2
     #portrait #printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #cyanotypeProcess #multimedia #botany #botanicalArt

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