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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Blackburn, Jemima, 1823–1909
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Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813
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Campbell, Graham, Mrs.
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Curtis, Aza
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Finch, Louisa, Countess of Aylesford, 1760–1832
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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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Mackenzie, Maggie
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Perkins, Elizabeth Steele
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Potter, Susanna, 1802–1872
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Seymour, Louisa Caroline Harcourt, 1828–1889
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2023-2024
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Archives & Manuscripts
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Books
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19th century
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18th century
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20th century
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botanical illustration
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watercolor
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graphite drawing
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commonplace book
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ink drawing
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engraving
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herbaria
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portrait
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sketchbook
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albums (books)
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cut-paper work
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armorial bookplate
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armorial bookplates (provenance)
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children's book
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chromoxylograph
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clippings (information artifacts)
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collages (visual works)
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decorated paper
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doilie
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dried flower
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Women in natural history.
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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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Botany -- Study and teaching.
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Flowers -- Great Britain.
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Flowers -- Pictorial works.
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Flowers in literature.
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Amusements -- Great Britain.
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Animals -- Pictorial works.
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Animals -- Poetry.
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Animals in art -- Juvenile literature.
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Bark -- Specimens.
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Benton, F. E. -- Autograph.
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Birds -- Great Britain.
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Birds in art.
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Botanical illustration -- Great Britain.
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Botanical specimens -- Collection and preservation -- Europe.
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Botanical specimens -- Great Britain -- Specimens.
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18th century
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Great Britain
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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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Skye, Island of (Scotland)
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Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813
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Finch, Louisa, Countess of Aylesford, 1760–1832
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Head, Francis Somerville, 1846–1941
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Head, Frederick William, 1854–1886
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Kennedy, Elizabeth Gray, 1808–1889
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Kennedy, John Pendleton, 1795–1870
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Linné, Carl von, 1707–1778
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Potter, Susanna, 1802–1872
1
Seymour, Louisa Caroline Harcourt, 1828–1889
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Simcoe, Elizabeth, 1762–1850
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Wellington, Elizabeth Wellesley, Duchess of, 1820–1904
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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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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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English
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K. M. T
Flowers of Skye
1899-1901
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Commonplace book
1874-1924
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Seymour, Louisa Caroline Harcourt, 1828–1889
Album of drawings of mosses
ca. 1844?
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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
1829-1834
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Spicilegium florae Hantoniensis
1851-1860
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Doilies made for the Orphanage for Girls at Halfway Tree, Jamaica
[circa 1880?]
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Curtis, Aza
Flowers
1827
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Featherwork corncrake,
circa 1850?
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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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Perkins, Elizabeth Steele
The elements of botany
1837
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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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Mackenzie, Maggie
Maggie Mackenzie botany notebook
Great Britain,
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Blackburn, Jemima, 1823–1909
Scenes of animal life & character from nature & recollection
[1858?]
17
Natural history and gardening commonplace book
between 1830 and 1840
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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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Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813
Lepidoptera of the British Isles
circa 1810