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Louis Rousseau: Iphythion Panicea, Antilles ca. 1853
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Louis Pierre Rousseau (1811-1874) Class of sponges. Iphythion Panicea of the Antilles, 1853. The background of the salt print was retouched with brown ink. A technique that gives the photo a "modern look".
A scientific document from the "Académie des Sciences" with aesthetic beauty.
Salt print 19,9 x 17, 2 cm mounted on original cardboard. Annotations in pencil on the mount.
Another print (Coral, Stylaster flabelliformis) from the same series is kept in the Princeton University Art Museum.
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