Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Instagram handles below, I will update later with URLs! (Traveling in NYC rn)
@akeabrionne at @lylesandking
Woodcuts by Alisan Saar at the NYPL
Ruth Asawa at @themuseumofmodernart
@jacqueline_qiu at @____chart____
John Wilson, Man Ray and Helene Schjerfbeck at @metmuseum
@mishajapanwala and @enyleeparker at @hannahtraoregallery
Hildreth Meière, roundels of Dance, Drama, and Song on the 50th Street facade of Radio City Music Hall
Miniature leaf-shaped Quran
Attributed to Mohammed Saleh Taom Zander
(early 19th century)
The creation of miniature Qur’ans in manuscript has a long tradition, with some assuming unusual shapes like hexagons and octagons.
This early 19th-century example, which the Library recently acquired, was produced in Turkey and takes the form of a leaf with serrated edges, an allusion to the sacred Tuba tree.
Not mentioned in the Qur’an, the tree is generally believed to grow in Janna, the Islamic conception of Paradise.
This entire Qur’an is written on dark green paper in silver ink, and in sloping double columns that suggest the veins of a leaf.
Anna Atkins (1799-1871)
Volume Ill of Photographs of British Algae:
Cyanotype Impressions
Cyanotype, ca. 1853
Encouraged by her scientist father, Anna Atkins began in the early 184os to experiment with the new art of photography.
That she was among the earliest women to do so, however, would not be her most significant legacy.
Privy to Sir John Herschel’s accidental invention of the cyanotype, Atkins applied his photographic process —and the deep field of Prussian blue it yields—to the problem of how to make multiple prints that conveyed precise information about her growing collection of British seaweed specimens.
Atkins arranged, exposed, and developed photograms of more than 400 unique specimens, issuing them to her “botanical friends” as plates of a self-published book in parts.
The first installment appeared in October 1843, making hers the first photographically illustrated book in history.
Instagram handles below, I will update later with URLs! (Traveling in NYC rn)
@akeabrionne at @lylesandking
Woodcuts by Alisan Saar at the NYPL
Ruth Asawa at @themuseumofmodernart
@jacqueline_qiu at @____chart____
John Wilson, Man Ray and Helene Schjerfbeck at @metmuseum
@mishajapanwala and @enyleeparker at @hannahtraoregallery
Hildreth Meière, roundels of Dance, Drama, and Song on the 50th Street facade of Radio City Music Hall
Miniature leaf-shaped Quran
Attributed to Mohammed Saleh Taom Zander
(early 19th century)
The creation of miniature Qur’ans in manuscript has a long tradition, with some assuming unusual shapes like hexagons and octagons.
This early 19th-century example, which the Library recently acquired, was produced in Turkey and takes the form of a leaf with serrated edges, an allusion to the sacred Tuba tree.
Not mentioned in the Qur’an, the tree is generally believed to grow in Janna, the Islamic conception of Paradise.
This entire Qur’an is written on dark green paper in silver ink, and in sloping double columns that suggest the veins of a leaf.
Anna Atkins (1799-1871)
Volume Ill of Photographs of British Algae:
Cyanotype Impressions
Cyanotype, ca. 1853
Encouraged by her scientist father, Anna Atkins began in the early 184os to experiment with the new art of photography.
That she was among the earliest women to do so, however, would not be her most significant legacy.
Privy to Sir John Herschel’s accidental invention of the cyanotype, Atkins applied his photographic process —and the deep field of Prussian blue it yields—to the problem of how to make multiple prints that conveyed precise information about her growing collection of British seaweed specimens.
Atkins arranged, exposed, and developed photograms of more than 400 unique specimens, issuing them to her “botanical friends” as plates of a self-published book in parts.
The first installment appeared in October 1843, making hers the first photographically illustrated book in history.
