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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Cradock-Watson, Jane
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Bonnell, Mandy
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Clark, Laurie
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Wickham, Harriet, 1766–1847
2
Angus, Sarah
1
Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813
1
Bush, Tracey
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Douglas, Helen, 1952–
1
Gilbert, Anthony, 1916–1995
1
Hanham, Frederick, 1806–1877
1
Hobson, Edward, 1782–1830
1
Jones, Shirley
1
Kennedy, Elizabeth Gray, 1808–1889
1
Lady
1
Laskey, Walter
1
Lindley, John, 1799–1865
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Macgregor, Paula
1
Machin, Liz
1
Made Collective (Artist's group)
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Mathiss, Madeleine
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194
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Under Certain Circumstances
178
Free to Use
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Unavailable
122
Available
72
New Additions
2023-2024
3
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Prints
97
Books
58
Archives & Manuscripts
25
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
4
Drawings & Watercolors
3
Creator Gender
unknown
194
Period
19th century
135
20th century
41
21st century
18
18th century
4
Materials & Techniques
wove paper.
1
Work Type
botanical illustration
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194
ephemera
138
memorial card
80
cut-paper work
63
chromolithograph
55
embossed paper
46
valentine
46
memorials (commemorative)
40
memorial work
38
scrap
36
watercolor
25
lithograph
22
herbaria
18
artists' book
16
paperwork (crafts)
14
cupid
13
albums (books)
10
accordion fold format (binding)
9
recreation
9
die cutting
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Grief.
80
Mourning customs -- Great Britain.
80
Valentines -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
46
Great Britain -- Social life and customs.
45
Death.
44
Women in natural history.
29
Children -- Death.
18
Artists' books -- Great Britain.
15
Botanical specimens -- Collection and preservation -- Great Britain.
12
Pressed flower pictures.
11
Amusements -- Great Britain.
10
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
10
Flowers -- Pictorial works.
9
Greeting cards -- Specimens.
7
Love.
7
Botanical specimens -- Great Britain.
6
Botanical specimens -- Great Britain -- Specimens.
4
Gardens -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works.
4
Gardens -- Pictorial works.
4
Marine algae -- Great Britain -- Specimens.
4
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19th century
57
18th century
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Great Britain
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Exeter
1
Marske-by-the-Sea (England)
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Scotland
1
Switzerland
1
Yorkshire (England)
1
Associated People
Linné, Carl von, 1707–1778
2
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1901
2
Ainley, Susannah, -1898
1
Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 1777–1825
1
Angus, Sarah
1
Arthur, Ellen Grace, 1847–1920
1
Arthur, William Stephen, 1853–1918
1
Askew, Mary Ann, -1901
1
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
Barrett, Chrystle, -1918
1
Bennett, John, -1894
1
Birchenough, Charles, 1880–1884
1
Bleach, Ben, 1928
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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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Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
2
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Elisabeth Fairman
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jillian Barker, Royal Opera House.
1
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of John Underwood
1
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
187
Welsh
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Efik
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When the hearts feeling burns with concealing, oh, what an anguish silent to languish
mid-19th century
2
Love has triumphed
mid-19th century
3
In loving memory of Frederick Charles
1911
4
I am thine love
mid-19th century
5
Album of British grasses
circa 1800
6
Souvenir greeting card
[approximately 1890]
7
Specimens of sea weed
circa 1840?
8
Dearest name thee happy time that I in truth may all you mine
mid-19th century
9
In loving memory of George Bye
1895
10
Character of forest trees
circa 1817
11
Mathiss, Madeleine
Album of pressed seaweed specimens
1869
12
Valentine card
mid-19th century
13
The gift receive the deed approved ..
mid-19th century
14
What gives us comfort in this world of woe? ..
mid-19th century
15
Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813
Flora of the British Isles
circa 1790-1810?
16
Album of seaweed specimens, in scallop shell binding
mid-19th century
17
A faithful tribute of affection! To my love
mid-19th century
18
My heart is where thou art!
mid-19th century
19
Album of pressed wild flowers
1882-1899
20
[Silver metallic cut paper album card]
[approximately 1880]
21
T'is happiness we have in view, and mine is in possessing you
mid-19th century
22
Music is the voice of love. My love for thee is pure and ardent
mid-19th century
23
I would these flowers had lips to tell that I do love thee true and well
mid-19th century
24
We must be united!
mid-19th century
25
Constant as the sun in heaven above, this heart that thou has won will be to see in love
mid-19th century
26
Fortune teller's notebook
[1829?]
27
Happy may they birthday be
[1880?]
28
I wait a return of thy love
mid-19th century
29
This small tribute, dearest, take keep it for thy lovers sake ..
mid-19th century
30
May mutual loves count us blest
mid-19th century
31
Shapter, Mary Gibbs, 1842–1921
Notes on various trees, with leaf specimens
1879-1880
32
A tribute to beautiful love!
1844
33
A love, pure and ardent to thee I declare ..
mid-19th century
34
Will you share these with me?
mid-19th century
35
To my love
[1880?]
36
Lindley, John, 1799–1865
Lectures delivered by John Lindley in the junior course of botany at University College London
1848
37
Dearest name the happy time, that I in truth may call you mine
mid-19th century
38
By penning these misc lines, to prove a pledge of my unceasing love ..
mid-19th century
39
Album of pressed plant, flower, and seaweed specimens
1856-1863
40
Bonnell, Mandy
Lichen
[2012]
41
My memory holds thy form in view ..
mid-19th century
42
Yours unalterably
[1875?]
43
I will love thee ever dearly
mid-19th century
44
The beauteous flower which now I see, a simple tale doth tell ..
mid-19th century
45
Cut-paper basket
Great Britain,
46
Douglas, Helen, 1952–
Leda and the swan
[2011]
47
Oh speed fair sun! Thy face divine and bring my love to me
mid-19th century
48
Thou art my life, my love my heart. Thou art the world. And if thy will show .... I'll do it or die for thee
mid-19th century
49
[Three-dimensional cut-paper album card]
[approximately 1890]
50
I would these flowers had lips to tell that I do love thee true and well
mid-19th century
51
Wickham, Harriet, 1766–1847
Album of watercolors of flowering plants in Yorkshire and Cumbria
1796-1803
52
A token of faithful love! To my dearest Valentine!
mid-19th century
53
Cut-paper flower arrangements
London?,
54
How sweet upon the features of the one we hold most dear ..
mid-19th century
55
Can you keep a secret? If so open this
mid-19th century
56
To my pretty Valentine!
mid-19th century
57
My heart is truly thine, dear Valentine
mid-19th century
58
I live for thee only
mid-19th century
59
Happy is her most truly so for whom you heart does beat
mid-19th century
60
In loving and affectionate remembrance of George Gordon Duffield
1898
61
Thou are all I wish
mid-19th century
62
St. Valentine's Day at length is here to lovers still held dear
mid-19th century
63
Accept these flowers thus gracefully combined ... thus in unison let our loves be twined
mid-19th century
64
In loving memory of Frederick Callis
1898
65
Cupid'a ariel ship
mid-19th century
66
If truest love can gain respect I may a mutual love expect ..
mid-19th century
67
Wickham, Harriet, 1766–1847
A collection of English grasses
circa 1792-1808
68
[Metallic cut paper greeting card]
[approximately 1880]
69
To my Valentine
mid-19th century
70
The language of the flowers is but useless here to tell ..
mid-19th century
71
[Greeting card with movable flower]
[1850?]
72
To thee my heart beats with affection sincerely
mid-19th century
73
[Album card with silver edged cut paper overlay]
[approximately 1875]
74
Of your charity pray for the repose of the soul of John Dwyer
[1908]
75
Er serchus gof am Charlotte Anne, anwyl ferch
[1902]
76
Seymour, Louisa Caroline Harcourt, 1828–1889
Album of drawings of mosses
ca. 1844?
77
Cradock-Watson, Jane
Leaves
[2009]
78
In affectionate remembrance of Lewis
1898
79
In loving memory of Arthur Charles
1922
80
Marriage fortune telling game
ca. 1840?
81
Clark, Laurie
100 buttercups
2010
82
In loving remembrance of Her Most Gracious Majesty, Queen Victoria
1901
83
In loving memory of [Chrystle Barrett]
1918
84
Machin, Liz
Working class botanists
2010
85
Specimens of Cryptogamia, Filicales, Musci
circa 1850
86
Clark, Laurie
100 harebells
2012
87
The rose, shamrock, & thistle
[1815]
88
In affectionate remembrance of Rebecca, the beloved wife of John Teal
1898
89
In loving memory of Matilda Mills-King
1883
90
In loving memory of my dear husband Richard Gilbert
[1934]
91
Pease family
Pease family collection of sketchbooks and exercise books,
1814-1909
92
In loving memory of Ellen Grace Arthur
1920
93
On thee my hope is fixed
mid-19th century
94
Cradock-Watson, Jane
Time waits for no man
[2012]
95
Made Collective (Artist's group)
Surplus to requirement
21 x 23 x 5 cm
96
In loving mmory of Alfred Sydney Clifton
[1897]
97
In loving memory of James Herbert Kelly
1899
98
In loving remembrance of Elizabeth Wickham, of Little Somerford
[1891]
99
In ever loving memory of Sussanah Hamon
[1890]
100
In loving memory of Edna May
1915
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