Wild Flowers
ca. 1857
Medium
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
Image: 21.4 x 16.1 cm (8 7/16 x 6 5/16 in.) Mount: 44 x 30.4 cm (17 5/16 x 11 15/16 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1963
Accession Number
63.606.1.3
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Wild Flowers**, ca. 1857, is a delicate albumen silver print by British photographer Mark Anthony, capturing the Victorian fascination with childhood innocence and nature. Measuring 21.4 x 16.1 cm on a larger mount, this intimate portrait likely features young girls surrounded by wildflowers, evoking a sense of pastoral simplicity and youthful wonder. Anthony, active in the 1850s London scene, specialized in genre photographs that blended everyday life with poetic sentiment, making this work a charming example of early photographic portraiture. The albumen silver process, introduced in the ...