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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813
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Wickham, Harriet, 1766–1847
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Belloc, Bessie Rayner, 1829–1925
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Blackburn, Jemima, 1823–1909
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C. P. A. F
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Campbell, Graham, Mrs.
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Crafton, Edith Caroline, 1833–
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Curtis, Aza
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Finch, Louisa, Countess of Aylesford, 1760–1832
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Hamilton, Catherine
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Howard, Mary M. (Mary Matilda), 1804–1893
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K. M. T
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Kennedy, Elizabeth Gray, 1808–1889
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Le Lacheur, Madame, active 1845
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Mackenzie, Maggie
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Perkins, Elizabeth Steele
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Potter, Susanna, 1802–1872
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Rowe, Miss
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Seymour, Louisa Caroline Harcourt, 1828–1889
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Shapter, Mary Gibbs, 1842–1921
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Under Certain Circumstances
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Free to Use
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Unavailable
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New Additions
2023-2024
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Archives & Manuscripts
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Books
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Three-Dimensional Artifacts
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Drawings & Watercolors
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Photographs
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Visual Materials
2
Creator Gender
unknown
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Period
19th century
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18th century
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20th century
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Materials & Techniques
albumen process.
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salted paper processes.
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botanical illustration
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watercolor
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graphite drawing
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ink drawing
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cut-paper work
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sketchbook
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commonplace book
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engraving
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armorial bookplates (provenance)
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herbaria
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portrait
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collages (visual works)
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featherwork
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photograph
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photograph album
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albumen print
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albums (books)
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dried flower
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embossed print
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ephemera
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Women in natural history.
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Flowers -- Pictorial works.
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English poetry -- 18th century.
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English poetry -- 19th century.
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Pressed flower pictures.
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Botanical specimens -- Collection and preservation -- Great Britain.
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Flowers.
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Birds -- Pictorial works.
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Flowers in literature.
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs.
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Ornithology -- Great Britain.
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Amusements -- Great Britain.
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Botany -- Study and teaching.
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Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813.
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Butterflies.
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Flowers -- Great Britain.
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Fortune-telling -- Great Britain.
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Gardens -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works.
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Head, Francis Somerville, 1846–1941.
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Linné, Carl von, 1707–1778. Systema naturae.
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18th century
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19th century
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Associated Places
Great Britain
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Antwerp (Belgium)
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Cornwall (England : County)
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England
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Hampshire
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Jamaica
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London (England)
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Sketty (Swansea, Wales)
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Skye, Island of (Scotland)
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Wales
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Associated People
Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813
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Head, Francis Somerville, 1846–1941
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Linné, Carl von, 1707–1778
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Belloc, Bessie Rayner, 1829–1925
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Burdett family
1
Burgess family
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Crafton, Edith C., 1833–
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Davidson family
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Delany, Mrs. (Mary), 1700–1788
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Denham family
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Dickinson, Joseph, approximately 1805–1865
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Eden family
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Eden, Dulcie
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Finch, Louisa, Countess of Aylesford, 1760–1832
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Gould, John, 1804–1881
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Hamilton family
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Hamilton, Catherine
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Head, Frederick William, 1854–1886
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Houston family
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Howard, John, 1726–1790
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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)
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Crafting Worldviews: European Instruments of Art and Science from Yale University (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-02-17 - 2023-06-25)
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Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Lauren Brown.
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Rosemarie Haag Bletter and Martin Filler.
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Language
English
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Wild flowers and their teachings
1848
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W., Ellen
Album of cut-paper flowers
circa 1835
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C. P. A. F
Album of cut-paper flowers
1842-1849
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Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813
Flora of the British Isles
circa 1790-1810?
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Rowe, Miss
Rowe collection of botanical specimens,
1861-1862
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Cut-paper featherwork illustrations of birds
1830s?
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Specimens of articles in common use
between 1840 and 1860?
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Album of bird illustrations made from bird feathers
approximately 1880
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Shapter, Mary Gibbs, 1842–1921
Notes on various trees, with leaf specimens
1879-1880
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Hamilton, Catherine
Catherine Hamilton commonplace book
1822-1880
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Sarah Annette Jones photograph album
1853-1855
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Wickham, Harriet, 1766–1847
Album of watercolors of flowering plants in Yorkshire and Cumbria
1796-1803
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Prendergast family photograph album
late 1860s-1870s
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Drawing folder with watercolors
ca. 1850
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Wickham, Harriet, 1766–1847
A collection of English grasses
circa 1792-1808
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Le Lacheur, Madame, active 1845
Novel and interesting exhibition of fancy shell-work!
[1845]
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Crafton, Edith Caroline, 1833–
Edith C. Crafton science notebook, completed at South End House, Croydon
ca.1850
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Cut-paper basket
Great Britain,
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Belloc, Bessie Rayner, 1829–1925
Photogenic drawings of various objects
1848-1859
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Fortune teller's notebook
[1829?]
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Seymour, Louisa Caroline Harcourt, 1828–1889
Album of drawings of mosses
ca. 1844?
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K. M. T
Flowers of Skye
1899-1901
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Howard, Mary M. (Mary Matilda), 1804–1893
Wild flowers and their teachings
1845
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Marriage fortune telling game
ca. 1840?
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Commonplace book
1874-1924
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Potter, Susanna, 1802–1872
Susanna Potter commonplace book
1823-circa 1860
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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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Featherwork corncrake,
circa 1850?
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Spicilegium florae Hantoniensis
1851-1860
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Perkins, Elizabeth Steele
The elements of botany
1837
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Mackenzie, Maggie
Maggie Mackenzie botany notebook
Great Britain,
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Natural history and gardening commonplace book
between 1830 and 1840
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Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813
Lepidoptera of the British Isles
circa 1810
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Campbell, Graham, Mrs.
One hundred voices from nature, or, Apples of gold in a net-work of silver
1861
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[Paper quillwork picture of a flower vase]
[ca. 1820?]
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Doilies made for the Orphanage for Girls at Halfway Tree, Jamaica
[circa 1880?]
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Commonplace book
1829-1834
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Finch, Louisa, Countess of Aylesford, 1760–1832
Hepatics and mosses from the herbarium of the Countess of Aylesford
circa 1790-1810
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Blackburn, Jemima, 1823–1909
Scenes of animal life & character from nature & recollection
[1858?]
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Curtis, Aza
Flowers
1827