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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Cradock-Watson, Jane
8
Bonnell, Mandy
2
Clark, Laurie
2
Wickham, Harriet, 1766–1847
2
Angus, Sarah
1
Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813
1
Bush, Tracey
1
Douglas, Helen, 1952–
1
Gilbert, Anthony, 1916–1995
1
Hanham, Frederick, 1806–1877
1
Hobson, Edward, 1782–1830
1
Jones, Shirley
1
Kennedy, Elizabeth Gray, 1808–1889
1
Lady
1
Laskey, Walter
1
Lindley, John, 1799–1865
1
Macgregor, Paula
1
Machin, Liz
1
Made Collective (Artist's group)
1
Mathiss, Madeleine
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2018
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Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
194
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Under Certain Circumstances
178
Free to Use
16
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Unavailable
122
Available
72
New Additions
2023-2024
3
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Prints
97
Books
58
Archives & Manuscripts
25
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
4
Drawings & Watercolors
3
Creator Gender
unknown
194
Period
19th century
135
20th century
41
21st century
18
18th century
4
Materials & Techniques
wove paper.
1
Work Type
botanical illustration
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194
ephemera
138
memorial card
80
cut-paper work
63
chromolithograph
55
embossed paper
46
valentine
46
memorials (commemorative)
40
memorial work
38
scrap
36
watercolor
25
lithograph
22
herbaria
18
artists' book
16
paperwork (crafts)
14
cupid
13
albums (books)
10
accordion fold format (binding)
9
recreation
9
die cutting
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Grief.
80
Mourning customs -- Great Britain.
80
Valentines -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
46
Great Britain -- Social life and customs.
45
Death.
44
Women in natural history.
29
Children -- Death.
18
Artists' books -- Great Britain.
15
Botanical specimens -- Collection and preservation -- Great Britain.
12
Pressed flower pictures.
11
Amusements -- Great Britain.
10
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
10
Flowers -- Pictorial works.
9
Greeting cards -- Specimens.
7
Love.
7
Botanical specimens -- Great Britain.
6
Botanical specimens -- Great Britain -- Specimens.
4
Gardens -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works.
4
Gardens -- Pictorial works.
4
Marine algae -- Great Britain -- Specimens.
4
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19th century
57
18th century
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Great Britain
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Exeter
1
Marske-by-the-Sea (England)
1
Scotland
1
Switzerland
1
Yorkshire (England)
1
Associated People
Linné, Carl von, 1707–1778
2
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1901
2
Ainley, Susannah, -1898
1
Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 1777–1825
1
Angus, Sarah
1
Arthur, Ellen Grace, 1847–1920
1
Arthur, William Stephen, 1853–1918
1
Askew, Mary Ann, -1901
1
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
Barrett, Chrystle, -1918
1
Bennett, John, -1894
1
Birchenough, Charles, 1880–1884
1
Bleach, Ben, 1928
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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)
12
Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elisabeth Fairman
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jillian Barker, Royal Opera House.
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Underwood
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Lauren Brown.
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the artist
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English
187
Welsh
3
Efik
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Happy may they birthday be
[1880?]
2
Character of forest trees
circa 1817
3
The gift receive the deed approved ..
mid-19th century
4
I would these flowers had lips to tell that I do love thee true and well
mid-19th century
5
We must be united!
mid-19th century
6
Specimens of sea weed
circa 1840?
7
Album of seaweed specimens, in scallop shell binding
mid-19th century
8
Music is the voice of love. My love for thee is pure and ardent
mid-19th century
9
What gives us comfort in this world of woe? ..
mid-19th century
10
Album of British grasses
circa 1800
11
In loving memory of George Bye
1895
12
A faithful tribute of affection! To my love
mid-19th century
13
Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813
Flora of the British Isles
circa 1790-1810?
14
In loving memory of Frederick Charles
1911
15
I am thine love
mid-19th century
16
Valentine card
mid-19th century
17
Souvenir greeting card
[approximately 1890]
18
My heart is where thou art!
mid-19th century
19
T'is happiness we have in view, and mine is in possessing you
mid-19th century
20
Dearest name thee happy time that I in truth may all you mine
mid-19th century
21
When the hearts feeling burns with concealing, oh, what an anguish silent to languish
mid-19th century
22
Mathiss, Madeleine
Album of pressed seaweed specimens
1869
23
Love has triumphed
mid-19th century
24
Album of pressed wild flowers
1882-1899
25
[Silver metallic cut paper album card]
[approximately 1880]
26
Lindley, John, 1799–1865
Lectures delivered by John Lindley in the junior course of botany at University College London
1848
27
I wait a return of thy love
mid-19th century
28
This small tribute, dearest, take keep it for thy lovers sake ..
mid-19th century
29
Shapter, Mary Gibbs, 1842–1921
Notes on various trees, with leaf specimens
1879-1880
30
A love, pure and ardent to thee I declare ..
mid-19th century
31
Cut-paper flower arrangements
London?,
32
Can you keep a secret? If so open this
mid-19th century
33
To my pretty Valentine!
mid-19th century
34
How sweet upon the features of the one we hold most dear ..
mid-19th century
35
I would these flowers had lips to tell that I do love thee true and well
mid-19th century
36
[Three-dimensional cut-paper album card]
[approximately 1890]
37
Wickham, Harriet, 1766–1847
Album of watercolors of flowering plants in Yorkshire and Cumbria
1796-1803
38
Thou art my life, my love my heart. Thou art the world. And if thy will show .... I'll do it or die for thee
mid-19th century
39
May mutual loves count us blest
mid-19th century
40
Constant as the sun in heaven above, this heart that thou has won will be to see in love
mid-19th century
41
Accept these flowers thus gracefully combined ... thus in unison let our loves be twined
mid-19th century
42
Cupid'a ariel ship
mid-19th century
43
I will love thee ever dearly
mid-19th century
44
I live for thee only
mid-19th century
45
Happy is her most truly so for whom you heart does beat
mid-19th century
46
In loving and affectionate remembrance of George Gordon Duffield
1898
47
Thou are all I wish
mid-19th century
48
If truest love can gain respect I may a mutual love expect ..
mid-19th century
49
St. Valentine's Day at length is here to lovers still held dear
mid-19th century
50
The beauteous flower which now I see, a simple tale doth tell ..
mid-19th century
51
My memory holds thy form in view ..
mid-19th century
52
In loving memory of Frederick Callis
1898
53
To my Valentine
mid-19th century
54
The language of the flowers is but useless here to tell ..
mid-19th century
55
Wickham, Harriet, 1766–1847
A collection of English grasses
circa 1792-1808
56
[Metallic cut paper greeting card]
[approximately 1880]
57
Yours unalterably
[1875?]
58
To my love
[1880?]
59
Cut-paper basket
Great Britain,
60
Will you share these with me?
mid-19th century
61
By penning these misc lines, to prove a pledge of my unceasing love ..
mid-19th century
62
A tribute to beautiful love!
1844
63
Dearest name the happy time, that I in truth may call you mine
mid-19th century
64
Fortune teller's notebook
[1829?]
65
A token of faithful love! To my dearest Valentine!
mid-19th century
66
Album of pressed plant, flower, and seaweed specimens
1856-1863
67
Bonnell, Mandy
Lichen
[2012]
68
Douglas, Helen, 1952–
Leda and the swan
[2011]
69
Oh speed fair sun! Thy face divine and bring my love to me
mid-19th century
70
My heart is truly thine, dear Valentine
mid-19th century
71
[Greeting card with movable flower]
[1850?]
72
To thee my heart beats with affection sincerely
mid-19th century
73
In loving remembrance of Fanny
74
In fond remembrance
[approximately 1860]
75
In loving memory of James Kay
[1891]
76
In affectionate remembrance of William
[1899]
77
Clark, Laurie
100 harebells
2012
78
Machin, Liz
Working class botanists
2010
79
In loving remembrance of Gracie Schneider
1892
80
In loving memory of Arthur Charles
1922
81
Children's magical flowers
circa 1840
82
In loving remembrance of Mary Ann Lewis
[1888]
83
Of your charity pray for the repose of the soul of John Dwyer
[1908]
84
In loving memory of James Herbert Kelly
1899
85
In ever loving memory of Sussanah Hamon
[1890]
86
Cradock-Watson, Jane
Skeleton
[2010]
87
British algae
circa 1880?
88
Laskey, Walter
Notes on trees, with leaf specimens
ca. 1950
89
In affectionate remembrance of Susannah
1898
90
In affectionate remembrance of our dear father, William Albert Croucher
1917
91
In loving remembrance of Chrisie Schneider
1892
92
The rose, shamrock, & thistle
[1815]
93
In loving mmory of Alfred Sydney Clifton
[1897]
94
Cradock-Watson, Jane
Leaves
[2009]
95
Seymour, Louisa Caroline Harcourt, 1828–1889
Album of drawings of mosses
ca. 1844?
96
In affectionate remembrance of Lewis
1898
97
In loving memory of my dear husband Richard Gilbert
[1934]
98
Cradock-Watson, Jane
Time waits for no man
[2012]
99
In loving memory of Ellen Grace Arthur
1920
100
In loving remembrance of Elizabeth Wickham, of Little Somerford
[1891]
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