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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Creator
Byron, Georgina Lucy, 1809–1891
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Gilbert, Anthony, 1916–1995
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Kennedy, Elizabeth Gray, 1808–1889
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Mathiss, Madeleine
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Seymour, Louisa Caroline Harcourt, 1828–1889
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7
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Archives & Manuscripts
14
Drawings & Watercolors
1
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
1
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19th century
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20th century
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albums (books)
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botanical illustration
16
herbaria
14
sketchbook
2
caricature
1
collages (visual works)
1
commonplace book
1
cyanotypes (photographic prints)
1
engraving
1
gelatin silver print
1
humorous picture
1
ink drawing
1
leaves (plant components)
1
photograph
1
scallop shell
1
scrapbook
1
souvenir
1
watercolor
1
Subject Terms
Pressed flower pictures.
14
Botanical specimens -- Collection and preservation -- Great Britain.
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Botanical specimens -- Collection and preservation.
7
Botanical specimens -- Great Britain.
6
Marine algae -- Great Britain -- Specimens.
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Botanical specimens -- Collection and preservation -- Europe.
3
Wild flowers -- Collection and preservation -- Europe.
3
Wild flowers -- Collection and preservation -- Great Britain.
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Botanical specimens -- Great Britain -- Specimens.
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Botanical specimens -- Ireland.
2
Grand tours (Education)
2
Marine algae -- Great Britain.
2
Marine algae -- Ireland.
2
Women in natural history.
2
Botanical specimens -- Europe.
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Botanical specimens -- Great Britain -- Channel Islands.
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Botanical specimens -- Scotland -- Cromarty.
1
Botany -- Great Britain.
1
Burns, Robert, 1759–1796.
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Cats.
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Great Britain
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Europe
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Bristol
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Cromarty (Scotland)
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England
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Highlands (Scotland)
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Sark (Guernsey)
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Scotland
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Burns, Robert, 1759–1796
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Crowther, Richard William B
1
Hegan, John, 1801–1876
1
Kennedy, Elizabeth Gray, 1808–1889
1
Kennedy, John Pendleton, 1795–1870
1
Mathiss, Madeleine
1
Seymour, Louisa Caroline Harcourt, 1828–1889
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)
4
Ocean Flowers (Yale Center for British Art, 2004-06-12 - 2004-08-08)
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Lauren Brown.
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English
15
German
1
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Mathiss, Madeleine
Album of pressed seaweed specimens
1869
2
Album of seaweed specimens, in scallop shell binding
mid-19th century
3
Specimens of sea weed
circa 1840?
4
Album of drawings
ca. 1900-1903
5
Jersey algae
1860
6
Album of pressed plant, flower, and seaweed specimens
1856-1863
7
Album of pressed wild flowers
1882-1899
8
Flora
approximately 1860
9
Album of pressed seaweed specimens
1850-1857
10
Kennedy, Elizabeth Gray, 1808–1889
Album of pressed plants collected during a tour of Europe
1856-1858
11
Seymour, Louisa Caroline Harcourt, 1828–1889
Album of drawings of mosses
ca. 1844?
12
Byron, Georgina Lucy, 1809–1891
Album of pressed plant and flower specimens, with additional souvenirs
August 1829-October 1831
13
British algae
circa 1880?
14
Ocean gems
circa 1850
15
Gilbert, Anthony, 1916–1995
Garden leaves, 1954
1954
16
Album of pressed plant and flower specimens
1849-1852