X-Ray of Samples of Various Materials. Artist: Josef Maria Eder (Austrian, Krems an der Donau, 1855-1944 Kitzbühel); Eduard Valenta (Austrian, 1857-1937). Dimensions: Image: 9 1/16 × 6 15/16 in. (23 × 17.7 cm)Plate: 10 5/16 × 8 1/4 in. (26.2 × 20.9 cm)Sheet: 17 5/16 × 13 15/16 in. (44 × 35.4 cm). Date: 1896.Eder was the director of an institute for graphic processes and the author of an early history of photography. With the photochemist Valenta, he produced a portfolio in January 1896, less than a month after Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen published his discovery of X-rays. Eder and Valenta's volume, from which this plate derives, demonstrated the X-ray's magical ability to reveal the hidden structure of living things. Human hands and feet, fish, frogs, a snake, a chameleon, a lizard, a rat, and a newborn rabbit are all presented in exquisitely printed photo-gravures, as are carved cameos and an assortment of natural materials. In an era when photography's ability to accurately depict the

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X-Ray of Samples of Various Materials. Artist: Josef Maria Eder (Austrian, Krems an der Donau, 1855-1944 Kitzbühel); Eduard Valenta (Austrian, 1857-1937). Dimensions: Image: 9 1/16 × 6 15/16 in. (23 × 17.7 cm)Plate: 10 5/16 × 8 1/4 in. (26.2 × 20.9 cm)Sheet: 17 5/16 × 13 15/16 in. (44 × 35.4 cm). Date: 1896.Eder was the director of an institute for graphic processes and the author of an early history of photography. With the photochemist Valenta, he produced a portfolio in January 1896, less than a month after Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen published his discovery of X-rays. Eder and Valenta's volume, from which this plate derives, demonstrated the X-ray's magical ability to reveal the hidden structure of living things. Human hands and feet, fish, frogs, a snake, a chameleon, a lizard, a rat, and a newborn rabbit are all presented in exquisitely printed photo-gravures, as are carved cameos and an assortment of natural materials. In an era when photography's ability to accurately depict the

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