Virginia Creeper

Photographer Unknown

ArtistUnknown

CountryUnited States

MediumCyanotype

EphemeraLeaf Form Specimen Photograms

Year1920-1940

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Plants, Supports

Dimensions

Image Dimensions: 21.5 x 16.1 cm thin paper, laid down
Support Dimensions: 27.9 x 21.1 cm thin, manilla-colored paper


Shown is a photogram of a Virginia Creeper leaf cluster.

 

Virginia Creeper: Parthenocissus quinquefolia, known as Virginia creeper, Victoria creeper, five-leaved ivy, or five-finger, is a species of flowering plant in the grape family, Vitaceae. It is native to eastern and central North America, from southeastern Canada and the eastern United States west to Manitoba and Utah, and south to eastern Mexico and Guatemala. (Wikipedia accessed 2017)

 

print notes: written in graphite script on upper right corner of mount: Virginia Creeper

condition: adhesive traces showing through leaf cluster from application to print verso.

Virginia Creeper