Plates & Prints
4 works
Plates
A cabinet of plates drawn from the public-domain libraries of natural history — Audubon, Haeckel, the agricultural press, and the great breed books of the late-Victorian era.
Cockerel Weathervane
Public-domain photograph
The Red Jungle Fowl
After John James Audubon
Plate VI — Thailändische Kämpfer
After J. Houdry
Kunstformen der Natur
After Ernst Haeckel
From the Darkroom
4 plates
Photographic Plates
A small cabinet of daguerreotypes and albumen prints — the Codex's photographic register, where the engraved plate gives way to the camera's patient eye. Sepia, salt, and silver.
The Gamecock, in profile
Albumen print, period detail · c. 1880
Daguerreotype, oval brass mount
Studio portrait · c. 1855
The Pit, on fight day
Sepia photograph · c. 1890
A workbench at the archive
Natural history study · c. 1900