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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Bonnell, Mandy
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Byron, Georgina Lucy, 1809–1891
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Finch, Louisa, Countess of Aylesford, 1760–1832
1
Gilbert, Anthony, 1916–1995
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Hanham, Frederick, 1806–1877
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Hobson, Edward, 1782–1830
1
Kennedy, Elizabeth Gray, 1808–1889
1
Laskey, Walter
1
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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Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
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Under Certain Circumstances
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2023-2024
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Archives & Manuscripts
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Books
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Three-Dimensional Artifacts
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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
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albums (books)
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ink drawing
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artists' book
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cut-paper work
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engraving
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exercise book
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graphite drawing
1
leaves (plant components)
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lecture
1
patterns (design elements)
1
scallop shell
1
souvenir
1
watercolor
1
Subject Terms
Pressed flower pictures.
19
Botanical specimens -- Collection and preservation -- Great Britain.
18
Botanical specimens -- Great Britain.
12
Botanical specimens -- Collection and preservation.
6
Flowers -- Collection and preservation -- Great Britain.
6
Flowers -- Great Britain.
6
Botanical specimens -- Great Britain -- Specimens.
5
Marine algae -- Great Britain -- Specimens.
5
Women in natural history.
5
Wild flowers -- Collection and preservation -- Great Britain.
4
Botanical specimens -- Collection and preservation -- Europe.
3
Grasses -- Collection and preservation -- Great Britain.
3
Mosses -- Collection and preservation -- Great Britain.
3
Mosses -- Great Britain -- Specimens.
3
Wild flowers -- Collection and preservation -- Europe.
3
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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Great Britain
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England
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Bristol
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Cromarty (Scotland)
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Europe
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Hampshire
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Sark (Guernsey)
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Woolpit (England)
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Crowther, Richard William B
1
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
Wellington, Elizabeth Wellesley, Duchess of, 1820–1904
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)
7
Ocean Flowers (Yale Center for British Art, 2004-06-12 - 2004-08-08)
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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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Mathiss, Madeleine
Album of pressed seaweed specimens
1869
2
Specimens of sea weed
circa 1840?
3
Lindley, John, 1799–1865
Lectures delivered by John Lindley in the junior course of botany at University College London
1848
4
Jersey algae
1860
5
Album of seaweed specimens, in scallop shell binding
mid-19th century
6
Album of British grasses
circa 1800
7
Album of pressed wild flowers
1882-1899
8
Shapter, Mary Gibbs, 1842–1921
Notes on various trees, with leaf specimens
1879-1880
9
Album of pressed plant, flower, and seaweed specimens
1856-1863
10
Paley, Ann
Fern and flower album
1873-1878
11
Byron, Georgina Lucy, 1809–1891
Album of pressed plant and flower specimens, with additional souvenirs
August 1829-October 1831
12
Specimens of Cryptogamia, Filicales, Musci
circa 1850
13
Pressed botanical specimens
ca. 1825
14
British algae
circa 1880?
15
Laskey, Walter
Notes on trees, with leaf specimens
ca. 1950
16
Aldhouse family school exercise books
1894-1897
17
Kennedy, Elizabeth Gray, 1808–1889
Album of pressed plants collected during a tour of Europe
1856-1858
18
Stracey, Benard, 1874–1944
Collection of flower, grass, lichen, and tree specimens, collected in Switzerland
1889-1890
19
Album of pressed seaweed specimens
1850-1857
20
Bonnell, Mandy
Wild flowers worth notice
[2012-2014]
21
Finch, Louisa, Countess of Aylesford, 1760–1832
Hepatics and mosses from the herbarium of the Countess of Aylesford
circa 1790-1810
22
Spicilegium florae Hantoniensis
1851-1860
23
Album of pressed plant and flower specimens
1849-1852
24
Ocean gems
circa 1850
25
Gilbert, Anthony, 1916–1995
Garden leaves, 1954
1954
26
Hanham, Frederick, 1806–1877
Natural illustrations of the British grasses
1846
27
Album of pressed botanical specimens from the county of Suffolk
circa 1830-1831
28
Hobson, Edward, 1782–1830
A collection of specimens, of British mosses and Hepaticae
1818-1822