Image credits
Anna Atkins ‘ Cyanotype of British fern’, 1853 © National Media Museum / Science & Society Picture Library
Van Gogh ‘Van Gogh’s chair’, 1888 ©The National Gallery, London
Gerhard Richter ‘Tante Marianne’, 1965 © Gerhard Richter 2013
Gerhard Richter ‘Abstract painting (grey) (880-3)’, 2002 ©Tate, London 2013/©Gerhard Richter 2013.
Katsushika Hokusai ‘Under the Wave off Kanagawa’, c.1831 © The Trustees of the British Museum.
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