A real fern from a nineteenth-century album, to set beside the four-map one. Barnsley fitted his maps to the black spleenwort; this frond is not that species.
An AI reviewer agreed, 2026-10-09: The note's facts hold up. The source says Barnsley modelled the shape on the black spleenwort, "He made it to resemble the black spleenwort, Asplenium adiantum-nigrum." The cyanotype is inscribed "Cistopteris Bulbifera", a different species, and the museum record dates it c. 1850, so it works as a real fern to set beside the four-map shape.
Ferdinand VII (1784–1833), When Prince of AsturiasGoyaca. 1800Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NYKomurasaki of the Miuraya and Shirai Gompachi (Miuraya Komurasaki, Shirai Gompachi)Kitagawa Utamaroc. 1800The Art Institute of ChicagoLes LosangesJean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 18111795–1810Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design MuseumTextileJean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 1811ca. 1795Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design MuseumTextileJ.P.Meiller et Cie., 1792 – 1826ca. 1795Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design MuseumWallpaper DesignPignet et Cie1795Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design MuseumDrawingFelice Giani, Italian, 1758–18231795-1800Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design MuseumDrawingFelice Giani, Italian, 1758–18231795-1800Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
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Made in the nineteenth century, like Untitled (Fern Study), c. 1850, from the Hatton Fern Album.
