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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Creator
Bonnell, Mandy
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Burkitt, William, 1650–1703
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Byron, Georgina Lucy, 1809–1891
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Ellicott, Elizabeth, ca. 1823–1887
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Forbes, James, 1749–1819
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Gilbert, Anthony, 1916–1995
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Hodgson, Frances S.
1
Kennedy, Elizabeth Gray, 1808–1889
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Laskey, Walter
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Pease family
1
Potter, Susanna, 1802–1872
1
Seymour, Louisa Caroline Harcourt, 1828–1889
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2023-2024
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Archives & Manuscripts
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unknown
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Period
19th century
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20th century
5
18th century
1
21st century
1
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botanical illustration
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watercolor
17
herbaria
12
graphite drawing
9
albums (books)
8
commonplace book
8
ink drawing
8
landscape drawing
4
children's art
3
engraving
3
portrait
3
sketchbook
3
albumen print
2
cut-paper work
2
exercise book
2
game
2
juvenilia
2
ornithological illustration
2
photograph
2
recreation
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Pressed flower pictures.
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Women in natural history.
9
Botanical specimens -- Collection and preservation -- Great Britain.
8
Botanical specimens -- Great Britain.
5
English poetry -- 18th century.
5
English poetry -- 19th century.
5
Botanical specimens -- Collection and preservation -- Europe.
3
Flowers -- Great Britain.
3
Wild flowers -- Collection and preservation -- Europe.
3
Wild flowers -- Collection and preservation -- Great Britain.
3
Art, Amateur -- Great Britain.
2
Botanical specimens -- Collection and preservation.
2
Flowers.
2
Grand tours (Education)
2
India -- Description and travel.
2
Marine algae -- Great Britain -- Specimens.
2
Quakers -- Great Britain.
2
Amusements -- Great Britain.
1
Animals -- India -- Pictorial works.
1
Animals in art.
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18th century
5
19th century
1
20th century
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Associated Places
Great Britain
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England
2
India
2
Bombay (India)
1
Bristol
1
Coonoor (India)
1
Cornwall (England : County)
1
Cromarty (Scotland)
1
Europe
1
Hampshire
1
Marske-by-the-Sea (England)
1
Scotland
1
Somerset (England)
1
South Africa
1
Switzerland
1
Yorkshire (England)
1
Associated People
Backhouse, Edward, 1808–1879
1
Backhouse, John Mounsey
1
Backhouse, Lucy Backhouse, 1812–1872
1
Backhouse, Rachel, 1826–1898
1
Backhouse, Thomas J. (Thomas James), 1810–1857
1
Backus family
1
Barclay, Ann Ford, 1822–1913
1
Barclay, Elizabeth Gurney
1
Boden, James
1
Boden, Mary
1
Brown, Stanley P
1
Cave, Henry, 1779–1836
1
Davison, W
1
Ellicott family
1
Ellicott, Edward
1
Ellicott, Elizabeth, ca. 1823–1887
1
Forbes, James, 1749–1819
1
Gurney, Emma, approximately 1800–1860
1
Hegan, John, 1801–1876
1
Hering, H. (Henry), 1814–1893
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Exhibition History
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014)
1
Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31)
1
Ocean Flowers (Yale Center for British Art, 2004-06-12 - 2004-08-08)
1
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)
1
Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Underwood
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Lauren Brown.
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the artist
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
1
Language
English
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Pease family
Pease family collection of sketchbooks and exercise books,
1814-1909
2
Burkitt, William, 1650–1703
Excerpts from William Burkitt's Expository notes
circa [1850?]
3
British algae
circa 1880?
4
Laskey, Walter
Notes on trees, with leaf specimens
ca. 1950
5
Seymour, Louisa Caroline Harcourt, 1828–1889
Album of drawings of mosses
ca. 1844?
6
Byron, Georgina Lucy, 1809–1891
Album of pressed plant and flower specimens, with additional souvenirs
August 1829-October 1831
7
Specimens of Cryptogamia, Filicales, Musci
circa 1850
8
Commonplace book
1874-1924
9
Album of pressed seaweed specimens
1850-1857
10
Marriage fortune telling game
ca. 1840?
11
Bonnell, Mandy
Wild flowers worth notice
[2012-2014]
12
Commonplace book
1829-1834
13
Ellicott, Elizabeth, ca. 1823–1887
An illustrated history of the county of Somerset
1862
14
Commonplace book compiled in Coonoor, India
1898-1905
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Kennedy, Elizabeth Gray, 1808–1889
Album of pressed plants collected during a tour of Europe
1856-1858
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Potter, Susanna, 1802–1872
Susanna Potter commonplace book
1823-circa 1860
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Aldhouse family school exercise books
1894-1897
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Commonplace book
circa 1830
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Gilbert, Anthony, 1916–1995
Garden leaves, 1954
1954
20
Spring buds and ivy leaves
1860, September 1-1861, January 1
21
Spicilegium florae Hantoniensis
1851-1860
22
Commonplace book
approximately 1861-1864
23
Hodgson, Frances S.
The gathered lilies
not after 1857
24
Album of pressed plant and flower specimens
1849-1852
25
Ocean gems
circa 1850
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Natural history and gardening commonplace book
between 1830 and 1840
27
Forbes, James, 1749–1819
A voyage from England to Bombay with descriptions in Asia, Africa, and South America
28
Backhouse and Mounsey collection,
1819-1856