- Title:
- A Few Leaves from the Newly-Invented Process of "Nature-Printing"
- Object name(s):
- Brief description:
- Tilia x vulgaris, printed in black and two shades of green
- Collection:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Associated concept:
- Gardens & Gardening
- Associated concept:
- Printmaking techniques
- Associated concept:
- Prints
- Associated concept:
- Books
- Content - concept:
- botany
- Content - concept:
- linden
- Current reproduction location:
- https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2006AN6906/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg
- Location type:
- Thumbnail
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- sheet
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 57
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- sheet
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 37.9
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- platemark
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 41.6
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- platemark
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 26.2
- Inscription content:
- TILIACEAE, (Juss.) / Tilia Europae'a, L. / COMMON LIME TREE.
- Inscription interpretation:
- Lower centre
- Inscription content:
- PRINTED IN COLOURS BY / BRADBURY & EVANS, PATENTES, WHITEFRIARS, LONDON.
- Inscription interpretation:
- Lower right corner
- Inscription content:
- Nature Printing,
- Inscription interpretation:
- Lower left corner
- Material:
- paper (fiber product)
- Material:
- printing ink
- Object name:
- Object number:
- 14765:19
- Object production date:
- 1854
- Date - association:
- made
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1854-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1854-12-31
- Object production organisation:
- Bradbury & Evans
- Organisation's association:
- publisher
- Object production person:
- Bradbury, Henry
- Person's association:
- printer
- Object production place:
- London
- Place association:
- published
- Object status:
- Limited edition
- Physical description:
- Tilia x vulgaris, printed in black and two shades of green
- Reproduction number:
- 2006AN6906
- Responsible department/section:
- PDP
- Technique:
- Nature printing
- Technique:
- Nature printing
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
- Text:
- Henry Bradury's first efforts in nature printing were issued in 1854 as a volume of 21 plates entitled 'A few leaves represented by 'nature printing' showing the application of the art for the reproduction of botanical and other natural objects with a delicacy of detail and truthfulness unobtainable by any other known method of printing...'. The 'book' had no text and seems to have been intended as an advertisement for the potential applications of nature printing. It was quickly followed by Moore's 'Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland' (1855), and Johnstone and Croall's 'Nature-Printed British Sea-weeds (1859). Although modelled on the actual plant, nature prints lack the illusion of three dimensions conveyed by a conventional illustration, and in fact resemble flattened herbarium specimens. The image was printed in three colours applied à la poupée (on the same plate and printed together); the colours blend where they meet rather than overlap. Henry Bradbury (1829-1860) issued his first efforts in nature printing in 1854 as a volume 'showing the application of the art for the reproduction of botanical and other natural objects with a delicacy of detail and truthfulness unobtainable by any other known method of printing...' He had studied under Alois Auer (1913-1869) at the Imperial Printing Office in Vienna and seen the new technique there.
- Text reason:
- Summary description
- Text:
- Photography Centre (2018-20): Henry Bradbury (1829–60), printed and published by Bradbury and Evans (founded 1830) Common lime or linden (Tilia x vulgaris) 1854 Nature printing was one of several image technologies that became popular in the mid 19th century that, like photography, aimed for a more direct capturing of the natural world. The artist would make a mould from the plant, ink it with colours and pass it through a roller press with paper. The resulting embossed impression of the plant often resembled a flattened herbarium specimen, like this example of lime tree leaves. Nature print Museum no. 14765:19
- Text reason:
- Gallery label text
- User's reference:
- Reference:
- Bradbury, Henry (1831-1860). A Few Leaves from the Newly-Invented Process of "Nature-Printing". London: Bradbury & Evans, 1854.
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Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
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