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Object name(s):
Print
Brief description:
Botanical print of great yellow loose strife, depicting a green stalk with leaves growing in pairs, and stems with small yellow flowers at the top of the stalk.
Collection:
Victoria and Albert Museum
Associated concept:
Prints
Associated concept:
Botanical art
Current reproduction location:
https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2010EL5382/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg
Location type:
Thumbnail
Object history note:
The South Kensington Museum register refers to this acquisition (14765) as "A few leaves from the newly invented process of Nature printing by Bradbury and Evans. 1854. Price 21 Shillings". The same source lists the process as 'Phytoglyphy' - from two Greek words for 'nature' and 'carving'. In this process two sheets of metal of unequal hardness are used to 'sandwich' the object to be nature printed - here the leaf, which leaves its impression in the softer plate. The Bradbury and Evans technique was in fact the subject of litigation between the British company and the Imperial Printing Works, Vienna, which claimed prior invention. William Bradbury's son Henry had been sent to see the process in Vienna and was accused of industrial espionage by Alois Auer the Viennese director. Auer published a broadside condemning Bradbury entitled (in abbreviation): 'Conduct of a Young Englishman named Henry Bradbury [...] after his return to his Native Country, in opposition to the Acknowledgments of Foreign Countries concerning the natural-printing process [..] the Conduct of Bradbury ascertained by the members of the Imperial Printing Office'.
Object name:
Print
Object number:
14765:17
Object production date:
1854
Date - association:
printed
Date - earliest / single:
1854-01-01
Date - latest:
1854-12-31
Object production organisation:
Bradbury & Evans
Organisation's association:
printers and publishers
Physical description:
Botanical print of great yellow loose strife, depicting a green stalk with leaves growing in pairs, and stems with small yellow flowers at the top of the stalk.
Reproduction number:
2010EL5382
Reproduction number:
2006AN2503
Responsible department/section:
PDP
Technique:
nature printing
Text reason:
Collections online record

Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/ef5f6af1-416e-3b60-b429-edcedd86c24d

Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/ef5f6af1-416e-3b60-b429-edcedd86c24d, Victoria and Albert Museum, CC BY-NC

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