British Seaweeds 091
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A Network of Seaweed Collectors
The work was partly based on an early network of collectors: in a prospectus, W. G. Johnstone and Alexander Croall requested seaweed specimens and information about where they had been found, promising printed acknowledgements in return. The plan was for 300 species, but the book stopped at 218 nature prints—impressions made from actual specimens.
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The story behind the motif
In 1859, the English printer Henry Bradbury published The Nature-printed British Sea-weeds . In this poster we see the illustration British Seaweeds 091.
Bradbury was quick to begin using the method of "nature printing" - a process of using plant or animal material to create a print. The process had previously been developed by the Austrian printer Alois Auer.
Bradbury placed the subject between two smooth and polished plates, one of steel and one of lead, which were then pulled through a pair of rollers. When the plates were then separated, an impression had been made on the lead plate, which was then hand colored and transferred to the final print.
At the lower left edge of the poster we can see the text " Nature printed by Henry Bradbury ".
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