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A demonstration of the Plinth theme for Omeka S: the museum and its collection are fictional, and the images were made with AI. About this site
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Wild Carrot

A black etching of a Queen Anne's lace flower seen from directly above, a lacy round umbel of tiny flowers, fine lines, a botanical print on cream paper with the plate mark visible. View larger
Wild Carrot

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Title
Wild Carrot
Description
Queen Anne's lace, drawn from above so the flower becomes a map. Achterberg printed only twelve impressions before the plate wore.
Creator
Nell Achterberg at the press, 1963. A black and white photograph from the 1960s, filling the whole frame edge to edge, of a woman in her forties wearing a printer's apron, turning the spoked wheel of an etching press in a small workshop; on the press bed lies a freshly printed etching of a wild spiky thistle plant with a tall stem and spiny leaves.Nell Achterberg
Date
1964
Type
Print
Medium
Etching
Extent
30.5 × 22.9 cm (12 × 9 in.)
Provenance
Gift of the Harlow Garden Club, 1974
Identifier
1974.3.7
Subject
Plants
Etchings
Rights
Fictional demonstration content created for the Omeka S demo. The artists and works are invented and the images were generated with AI (FLUX.2). Free to reuse (CC0 1.0).

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Nell Achterberg. “Wild Carrot.” 1964. Wrenfield Museum of Art. https://demo.refbytes.com/s/wrenfield/item/953 (accessed October 16, 2026).

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