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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Creator
Bonnell, Mandy
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Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813
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Hamilton, Catherine
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Kennedy, Elizabeth Gray, 1808–1889
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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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Wickham, Harriet, 1766–1847
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Archives & Manuscripts
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19th century
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18th century
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21st 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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ink drawing
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commonplace book
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engraving
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herbaria
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cut-paper work
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portrait
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sketchbook
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albums (books)
2
armorial bookplates (provenance)
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artists' book
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game
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patterns (design elements)
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recreation
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accordion fold format (binding)
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clippings (information artifacts)
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collages (visual works)
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embossed print
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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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Botanical specimens -- Collection and preservation -- Great Britain.
3
Flowers -- Great Britain.
3
Flowers -- Pictorial works.
3
Amusements -- Great Britain.
2
Artists' books -- Great Britain.
2
Botanical specimens -- Great Britain.
2
Fortune-telling -- Great Britain.
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs.
2
Pressed flower pictures.
2
Birds -- Great Britain.
1
Birds -- Pictorial works.
1
Botanical specimens -- Collection and preservation -- Europe.
1
Botanical specimens -- Collection and preservation.
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Botanical specimens -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works.
1
Botanizers -- Great Britain.
1
Botany -- Great Britain.
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Botany -- Societies, etc.
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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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Associated People
Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813
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Burgess family
1
Dickinson, Joseph, approximately 1805–1865
1
Hamilton, Catherine
1
Head, Francis Somerville, 1846–1941
1
Kennedy, Elizabeth Gray, 1808–1889
1
Kennedy, John Pendleton, 1795–1870
1
Lankester, Phebe, 1825–1900
1
Linné, Carl von, 1707–1778
1
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769–1821
1
Potter, Susanna, 1802–1872
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Qājār, Fatḥ ʻAlī Shāh, Shah of Iran, -1834
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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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Somerville, Julia Valenza, 1792–1879
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Wellington, Elizabeth Wellesley, Duchess of, 1820–1904
1
Withering, William, 1741–1799
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 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 Fund
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English
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Rowe, Miss
Rowe collection of botanical specimens,
1861-1862
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Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813
Flora of the British Isles
circa 1790-1810?
3
Fortune teller's notebook
[1829?]
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Hamilton, Catherine
Catherine Hamilton commonplace book
1822-1880
5
Bonnell, Mandy
Lichen
[2012]
6
Shapter, Mary Gibbs, 1842–1921
Notes on various trees, with leaf specimens
1879-1880
7
Wickham, Harriet, 1766–1847
A collection of English grasses
circa 1792-1808
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Marriage fortune telling game
ca. 1840?
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Seymour, Louisa Caroline Harcourt, 1828–1889
Album of drawings of mosses
ca. 1844?
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Commonplace book
1874-1924
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Commonplace book
1829-1834
12
Spicilegium florae Hantoniensis
1851-1860
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Potter, Susanna, 1802–1872
Susanna Potter commonplace book
1823-circa 1860
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Natural history and gardening commonplace book
between 1830 and 1840
15
Bonnell, Mandy
Wild flowers worth notice
[2012-2014]
16
Kennedy, Elizabeth Gray, 1808–1889
Album of pressed plants collected during a tour of Europe
1856-1858