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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Bonnell, Mandy
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B. B. B
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Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813
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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
1
Hamilton, Catherine
1
Hearne, John, 1795 or 6–1849
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Hodgson, Frances S.
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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Pease family
1
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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Archives & Manuscripts
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19th century
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20th century
5
18th century
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21st century
2
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botanical illustration
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watercolor
23
herbaria
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ink drawing
14
albums (books)
13
graphite drawing
13
commonplace book
10
sketchbook
6
engraving
5
cut-paper work
4
landscape drawing
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portrait
4
children's art
3
game
3
recreation
3
albumen print
2
armorial bookplates (provenance)
2
artists' book
2
exercise book
2
illuminated manuscript
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Pressed flower pictures.
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Women in natural history.
16
Botanical specimens -- Collection and preservation -- Great Britain.
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Botanical specimens -- Great Britain.
8
English poetry -- 19th century.
7
English poetry -- 18th century.
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Botanical specimens -- Collection and preservation.
5
Flowers -- Great Britain.
5
Marine algae -- Great Britain -- Specimens.
4
Wild flowers -- Collection and preservation -- Great Britain.
4
Botanical specimens -- Collection and preservation -- Europe.
3
Botanical specimens -- Great Britain -- Specimens.
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Flowers -- Collection and preservation -- Great Britain.
3
Flowers -- Pictorial works.
3
Wild flowers -- Collection and preservation -- Europe.
3
Amusements -- Great Britain.
2
Art, Amateur -- Great Britain.
2
Artists' books -- Great Britain.
2
Botanical specimens -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works.
2
Botanical specimens -- Ireland.
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18th century
6
19th century
2
Associated Places
Great Britain
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England
3
India
2
Scotland
2
Bristol
1
Coonoor (India)
1
Cornwall (England : County)
1
Cromarty (Scotland)
1
Europe
1
Haiti
1
Hampshire
1
Italy
1
Marske-by-the-Sea (England)
1
Sark (Guernsey)
1
Somerset (England)
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Switzerland
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Wales
1
Yorkshire (England)
1
Associated People
Linné, Carl von, 1707–1778
2
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
Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813
1
Burgess family
1
Cave, Henry, 1779–1836
1
Crowther, Richard William B
1
Davison, W
1
Dickinson, Joseph, approximately 1805–1865
1
Ellicott family
1
Ellicott, Edward
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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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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)
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Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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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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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Mathiss, Madeleine
Album of pressed seaweed specimens
1869
2
Album of British grasses
circa 1800
3
Character of forest trees
circa 1817
4
Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813
Flora of the British Isles
circa 1790-1810?
5
Specimens of sea weed
circa 1840?
6
Fortune teller's notebook
[1829?]
7
Rowe, Miss
Rowe collection of botanical specimens,
1861-1862
8
Shapter, Mary Gibbs, 1842–1921
Notes on various trees, with leaf specimens
1879-1880
9
B. B. B
Manuscript of Keble's morning hymn
1860
10
Hearne, John, 1795 or 6–1849
John Hearne commonplace book
1820-1849
11
Jersey algae
1860
12
Album of pressed wild flowers
1882-1899
13
Lindley, John, 1799–1865
Lectures delivered by John Lindley in the junior course of botany at University College London
1848
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Hamilton, Catherine
Catherine Hamilton commonplace book
1822-1880
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Album of pressed seaweed specimens
1850-1857
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Album of pressed plant, flower, and seaweed specimens
1856-1863
17
Bonnell, Mandy
Lichen
[2012]
18
Wickham, Harriet, 1766–1847
A collection of English grasses
circa 1792-1808
19
Forbes, James, 1749–1819
James Forbes archive
20
Burkitt, William, 1650–1703
Excerpts from William Burkitt's Expository notes
circa [1850?]
21
Pease family
Pease family collection of sketchbooks and exercise books,
1814-1909
22
Seymour, Louisa Caroline Harcourt, 1828–1889
Album of drawings of mosses
ca. 1844?
23
Byron, Georgina Lucy, 1809–1891
Album of pressed plant and flower specimens, with additional souvenirs
August 1829-October 1831
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Specimens of Cryptogamia, Filicales, Musci
circa 1850
25
Marriage fortune telling game
ca. 1840?
26
Commonplace book
1829-1834
27
Potter, Susanna, 1802–1872
Susanna Potter commonplace book
1823-circa 1860
28
Commonplace book compiled in Coonoor, India
1898-1905
29
Kennedy, Elizabeth Gray, 1808–1889
Album of pressed plants collected during a tour of Europe
1856-1858
30
Ellicott, Elizabeth, ca. 1823–1887
An illustrated history of the county of Somerset
1862
31
Aldhouse family school exercise books
1894-1897
32
Commonplace book
1874-1924
33
Bonnell, Mandy
Wild flowers worth notice
[2012-2014]
34
British algae
circa 1880?
35
Laskey, Walter
Notes on trees, with leaf specimens
ca. 1950
36
Spring buds and ivy leaves
1860, September 1-1861, January 1
37
Spicilegium florae Hantoniensis
1851-1860
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Hodgson, Frances S.
The gathered lilies
not after 1857
39
Commonplace book
approximately 1861-1864
40
Natural history and gardening commonplace book
between 1830 and 1840
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Ocean gems
circa 1850
42
Gilbert, Anthony, 1916–1995
Garden leaves, 1954
1954
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Commonplace book
circa 1830
44
Album of pressed plant and flower specimens
1849-1852
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Backhouse and Mounsey collection,
1819-1856