ABOUT THIS COLLECTION  
These navy-and-white snowflake graphics illustrated a book called “Snowflakes: a Chapter from the Book of Nature” (1863).  Edited by Israel Perkins Warren and published by the evangelical American Tract Society, the book does not explore any scientific research, but presents a collection of republished poems, anecdotes and other writing about snow and the snowflake from a religious perspective. The authors celebrated snowfall as a sign of God’s mercy, genius and design. Apart from the top of the first plate, which shows the primary geometrical forms taken by snow crystals, all the other forms shown are "representations of individual crystals, actually observed and sketched with the aid of the microscope.”
 
COLLECTION DETAILS
Series title: Snowflakes: a Chapter from the Book of Nature
Series size: 8 artworks
Edition: Limited edition of 1000
Proof of Ownership: Certification on the Ethereum blockchain under the ERC1155 protocol. Each artwork is delivered privately and directly to collectors as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) that guarrante proof of ownership.
Format: Pieces consist of PNG files sized 2160x3840 pixels - 150 dpi.
Medium: Illustration
Artwork materials:  Illustration paper
Contract Address: 0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c248420045cb7b5e
ID: 2749212597480566...
 
ABOUT THE ARTIST
In the preface, the authors credit three illustrators whose work formed the source material for the book’s engravings.The 18th-century Dutch physician John Nettis, who used early forms of microscope lenses to make his snowflake drawings in 1755; the early-19th century Arctic explorer William Scoresby whose meticulous drawings were made on board ship in the Arctic using a microscope and published in Scoresby’s 1820 book “An Account of the Arctic Regions,” and their contemporary, British astronomer and meteorologist James Glaisher, who published detailed sketches of snow crystals under a microscope in 1855. Thirty years later, Vermont farmer Wilson Alwyn Bentley made the first use of microphotography to capture snowflakes.
 
COLLECTION CREDITS
Historical curatorship: HARI - Historical Art Research Institute (HARI Editions)
Artwork: John Nettis, William Scoresby, James Glaisher
Year of original publication: 1863
Post-production: HARI - Historical Art Research Institute (HARI Editions)
Digital art supervisor: Marie-Lou Desmeules
Editorial: Braden Phillips
Historical research: Evangelos Rosios, Braden Phillips
Executive production: Victor Zabrockis
 
RIGHTS OVERVIEW
Source of artwork: California Digital Library, Internet Archive
Underlying work rights: PD Worldwide
Digital copyrights: No Additional Rights