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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Creator
Bonnell, Mandy
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Finch, Louisa, Countess of Aylesford, 1760–1832
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Gilbert, Anthony, 1916–1995
1
Hanham, Frederick, 1806–1877
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Hobson, Edward, 1782–1830
1
Kennedy, Elizabeth Gray, 1808–1889
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Laskey, Walter
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Lindley, John, 1799–1865
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Mathiss, Madeleine
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Paley, Ann
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Shapter, Mary Gibbs, 1842–1921
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Stracey, Benard, 1874–1944
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9
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2023-2024
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Archives & Manuscripts
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Books
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Three-Dimensional Artifacts
1
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unknown
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19th century
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20th century
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18th century
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21st century
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herbaria
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botanical illustration
18
albums (books)
10
ink drawing
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artists' book
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cut-paper work
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exercise book
1
graphite drawing
1
leaves (plant components)
1
lecture
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patterns (design elements)
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scallop shell
1
watercolor
1
Subject Terms
Botanical specimens -- Collection and preservation -- Great Britain.
15
Pressed flower pictures.
13
Botanical specimens -- Great Britain.
8
Botanical specimens -- Great Britain -- Specimens.
5
Botanical specimens -- Collection and preservation.
4
Flowers -- Collection and preservation -- Great Britain.
4
Flowers -- Great Britain.
4
Marine algae -- Great Britain -- Specimens.
4
Wild flowers -- Collection and preservation -- Great Britain.
4
Women in natural history.
4
Grasses -- Collection and preservation -- Great Britain.
3
Mosses -- Collection and preservation -- Great Britain.
3
Mosses -- Great Britain -- Specimens.
3
Botanical specimens -- Collection and preservation -- Europe.
2
Botanical specimens -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works.
2
Botanical specimens -- Ireland.
2
Ferns -- Great Britain -- Specimens.
2
Grand tours (Education)
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Grasses -- Great Britain -- Specimens.
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Leaves -- Great Britain -- Identification.
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Crowther, Richard William B
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Dillenius, Johann Jakob, 1687–1747
1
Finch, Louisa, Countess of Aylesford, 1760–1832
1
Hegan, John, 1801–1876
1
Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785–1865
1
Kennedy, Elizabeth Gray, 1808–1889
1
Kennedy, John Pendleton, 1795–1870
1
Lankester, Phebe, 1825–1900
1
Lindley, John, 1799–1865
1
Mathiss, Madeleine
1
Paley, Ann
1
Rowe, Miss
1
Shapter, Mary Gibbs, 1842–1921
1
Smith, James Edward, 1759–1828
1
Walker, John, 1731–1803
1
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 John Underwood
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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
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Specimens of sea weed
circa 1840?
2
Album of seaweed specimens, in scallop shell binding
mid-19th century
3
Album of British grasses
circa 1800
4
Mathiss, Madeleine
Album of pressed seaweed specimens
1869
5
Album of pressed wild flowers
1882-1899
6
Lindley, John, 1799–1865
Lectures delivered by John Lindley in the junior course of botany at University College London
1848
7
Shapter, Mary Gibbs, 1842–1921
Notes on various trees, with leaf specimens
1879-1880
8
Paley, Ann
Fern and flower album
1873-1878
9
Album of pressed plant, flower, and seaweed specimens
1856-1863
10
British algae
circa 1880?
11
Laskey, Walter
Notes on trees, with leaf specimens
ca. 1950
12
Specimens of Cryptogamia, Filicales, Musci
circa 1850
13
Pressed botanical specimens
ca. 1825
14
Aldhouse family school exercise books
1894-1897
15
Kennedy, Elizabeth Gray, 1808–1889
Album of pressed plants collected during a tour of Europe
1856-1858
16
Stracey, Benard, 1874–1944
Collection of flower, grass, lichen, and tree specimens, collected in Switzerland
1889-1890
17
Gilbert, Anthony, 1916–1995
Garden leaves, 1954
1954
18
Hobson, Edward, 1782–1830
A collection of specimens, of British mosses and Hepaticae
1818-1822
19
Album of pressed plant and flower specimens
1849-1852
20
Hanham, Frederick, 1806–1877
Natural illustrations of the British grasses
1846
21
Bonnell, Mandy
Wild flowers worth notice
[2012-2014]
22
Finch, Louisa, Countess of Aylesford, 1760–1832
Hepatics and mosses from the herbarium of the Countess of Aylesford
circa 1790-1810