The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné

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Object within Schaaf no. 757

Botanical specimen, wild fennel or dill

Object details

Image size: h 22.8cm x w 18.8cm

Object Type: Paper Negative-Contact

Mount: removed from an album

Physical description: corners clipped

Watermark: J Whatman 1840

Provenance:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, purchased 2005
Gilman Paper Company Collection, February 6, 1995
Hans P. Kraus Jr.
André Jammes, Paris

Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Object owner number: 2005.100.260

This object is part of Schaaf no. 757

Botanical specimen, wild fennel or dill

Keywords: Botany

This plant specimen belongs to the Apiaceae family and is probably Anethum graveolens. Other members of this large family of aromatic plants include the likes of celery, carrot, parsley, caraway, cumin and fennel.

A similar botanical specimen appears in Schaaf number 4212.