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?House wren (Troglodytes aedon) and eggs, with a specimen from the rose family (Rosaceae), Peacock butterflies (Nymphalis io), both closed and open, and butterfly chrysalis, larva caterpillar, daddy longlegs spider (Phalangida) egg case, and snout beetle, from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne.
Creator:
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Date:
circa 1768
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor and gouache over graphite, on parchment ; sheet 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
Flora of the British Isles.
Creator:
Burges, Mary Anne, 1763–1813
Date:
circa 1790-1810?
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Cyclamen (cf. Cyclamen L.) and (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae Pyrrhogyra sp.), with Northern dune tiger beetle (Cicindela ?hybrida), Leaf beetle (Coleoptera Chrysomelidae), Flesh fly (Diptera Sarcophagidae), Wasp beetle (Clytus arietis), Red-breasted carrion beetle (Oiceoptoma throracica) and, Sexton or Burying beetle (Nicrophorus humator), with shell (Mauritia arabica) from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne.
Creator:
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Date:
circa 1768
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor and gouache over graphite, on parchment ; sheet 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
Rowe collection of botanical specimens, 1861-1862.
Creator:
Rowe, Miss
Date:
1861-1862
Physical Description:
5 linear feet (6 boxes, 1 oversize)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Album of cut-paper flowers.
Creator:
C. P. A. F
Date:
1842-1849
Physical Description:
1 volume (94 pictures) ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Collection of drawings depicting specimens from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne.
Creator:
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Date:
circa 1768
Physical Description:
20 drawings : watercolor and gouache over graphite on parchment.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
Red crossbill (Loxia curvirostra), male, with Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.), from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne.
Creator:
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Date:
circa 1768
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor and gouache over graphite, on parchment ; sheet 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
Album of cut-paper flowers.
Creator:
W., Ellen
Date:
circa 1835
Physical Description:
1 volume (23 collages) : cut paper, collage ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Lady's slipper orchid (Cypripedium calceolus L.), with tiphiid wasp (Hymenoptera ?Tiphidae), Orange Tip (Anthocharis cardamines), soldier fly (Diptera ?Stratiomyidae), longhorned beetle (Chlorida festiva), and shell (Natica euzona Récluz 1844) from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne.
Creator:
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Date:
circa 1768
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor and gouache over graphite, on parchment ; sheet 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
European goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis), from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne.
Creator:
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Date:
circa 1768
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor and gouache over graphite, on parchment ; sheet 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne.
Creator:
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Date:
circa 1768
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor and gouache over graphite, on parchment ; sheet 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
Notes on various trees, with leaf specimens.
Creator:
Shapter, Mary Gibbs, 1842–1921
Date:
1879-1880
Physical Description:
1 volume ; 18 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Bethany seeds / wood engravings, Mandy Bonnell ; poem, Gabriel Gbadamosi.
Creator:
Bonnell, Mandy
Date:
2013
Physical Description:
[18] pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Fortune teller's notebook.
Date:
[1829?]
Physical Description:
1 volume (15 pages) : illustrations ; 11 cm, in boards 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Northern Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe), male, with Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus L.) and Camberwell Beauty (Nymphalis antiopa), both open and closed, and Pupa (Lepidoptera Pieridae), from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne.
Creator:
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Date:
circa 1768
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor and gouache over graphite, on parchment ; sheet 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
Catherine Hamilton commonplace book.
Creator:
Hamilton, Catherine
Date:
1822-1880
Physical Description:
1 volume (94 pages) : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Caesalpinoid legume, possibly a species of Caesalpinia L.; Blackburn's Earth Boring Beetle (Geotrupes blackburnii), Seven-Spotted Ladybird Beetle (Coccinella septumpunctata), Purple Emperor (Apatura iris), (Lepidoptera Hesperiidae) and (Nymphalidae cf. Haematera); shells, from left: (Cypraea ocellata L. 1758), (Conus marmoreus L. 1758), and (Semicassis granulate Born, 1778), from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne.
Creator:
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Date:
circa 1768
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor and gouache over graphite, on parchment ; sheet 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
Leda and the swan / [Helen Douglas].
Creator:
Douglas, Helen, 1952–
Date:
[2011]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([52] p.) : all col. ill. ; 18 x 216 cm, folded to 18 x 4 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes), with raspberry (Rubus idaeus L.), and wood lice (?Isopoda), and pupa (Lepidoptera ?Saturniidae) from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne.
Creator:
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Date:
circa 1768
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor and gouache over graphite, on parchment ; sheet 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
?White-cheeked Starling (Sturnus cineraceus), with bramble (Rubus fruticosus L.), and Eurasian Comma (Polygonia c-album), both closed and open, and Seven-Spotted Ladybird Beetle (Coccinella septumpunctata) on leaf, from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne.
Creator:
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Date:
circa 1768
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor and gouache over graphite, on parchment ; sheet 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
cf. Soldanella L., with holly blue (Celastrina argiolus) and (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae ?Danaus sp.), Amazon angel (Chorinea amazon) and (Diptera ?Stratiomyidae) with net-winged beetle (?Calopteron sp.) and shells, from the left, (Cypraea stolida L. 1758) and (Cypraea asellus L. 1758) from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne.
Creator:
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Date:
circa 1768
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor and gouache over graphite, on parchment ; sheet 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
Northern Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe) female, and eggs, with Cowberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea L.) and Silver-washed Fritillary (Argynnis Paphia), both closed and open, with Long-legged Fly from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne.
Creator:
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Date:
circa 1768
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor and gouache over graphite, on parchment ; sheet 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
Album of watercolors of flowering plants in Yorkshire and Cumbria.
Creator:
Wickham, Harriet, 1766–1847
Date:
1796-1803
Physical Description:
1 volume (74 drawings) : watercolor and gouache over graphite ; 40 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Eurasian nuthatch (Sitta europaea) and eggs, with red currant (Ribes cf. rubrum L.) and Small tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae), both closed and open, from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne.
Creator:
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Date:
circa 1768
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor and gouache over graphite, on parchment ; sheet 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
Cut-paper basket.
Date:
Great Britain,
Physical Description:
1 cut-paper basket : hand-cut paper with watercolor, stitched with silk thread ; 24 x 29 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Red Avadavat (Amandava amandava), male, with Marsh gentian (Gentiana pneumonanthe L.) and (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae Pyrrhogyra sp.), common sawfly (Hymenoptera ?Tenthredinidae), and (Heliconius wallacei flavescens), Fluminense swallowtail (Parides ascanius) with shells, left and right, (Agaronia gibbosa Born, 1778), and center, (Voluta musica L. 1758), from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne.
Creator:
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Date:
circa 1768
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor and gouache over graphite, on parchment ; sheet 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
Double flower cultivar of Wood anemone (Anemone cf. nemorosa L. cultivar), with Painted handmaiden moth (Euchromia polymena), both open and closed, with Blister beetle / Spanish fly (Myalabris sp.), Sawyer beetle (?Monochamus sp.) and (Cypraea pantherina Lightfoot, 1786), from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne.
Creator:
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Date:
circa 1768
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor and gouache over graphite, on parchment ; sheet 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
A collection of English grasses.
Creator:
Wickham, Harriet, 1766–1847
Date:
circa 1792-1808
Physical Description:
1 v. ([1], 105 leaves) : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
?Subalpine warbler (Sylvia cantillans), male, and eggs, with strawberry (Fragaria L.), and Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta), both closed and open, with wasp cocoon, ants and cocoons, from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne.
Creator:
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Date:
circa 1768
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor and gouache over graphite, on parchment ; sheet 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
Cut-paper flower arrangements.
Date:
London?,
Physical Description:
2 works : hand-cut paper ; in oval box frames 26 x 20 x 6 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Spotted flycatcher (Muscicapa striata) and eggs, with bramble (Rubus L.) and Purple Emperor (Apatura iris) and longhorned beetle (?Desmocerus sp.), from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne.
Creator:
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Date:
circa 1768
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor and gouache over graphite, on parchment ; sheet 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
European robin (Erithacus rubecula) and eggs, with wild strawberry (Fragaria vesca L.), from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne.
Creator:
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Date:
circa 1768
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor and gouache over graphite, on parchment ; sheet 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
Beautiful Nuthatch (Sitta formosa), with hazel (Corylus avellana L.), oak (Quercus L.) and bramble (cf. Rubus), from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne.
Creator:
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Date:
circa 1768
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor and gouache over graphite, on parchment ; sheet 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)

34. Lichen.

Lichen.
Creator:
Bonnell, Mandy
Date:
[2012]
Physical Description:
20 packets : illustrations ; in box 8 x 21 x 11 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Crimson topaz hummingbird (Topaza pella), male, with Cyclamen (cf. Cyclamen L.) and (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae), open, and Red Postman (Heliconius erato phyllis), closed; shells, from left: (Conus tessulatus Born, 1778), (cf. Cypraecassis testiculus L. 1758), and (cf. Cypraea histrio Gmelin, 1791), from the natural history cabinet of Anna Blackburne.
Creator:
Bolton, James, active 1775–1795
Date:
circa 1768
Physical Description:
1 drawing : watercolor and gouache over graphite, on parchment ; sheet 23 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Jane and Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University (1993-2013)
No cover image available
Date:
ca. 1840?
Physical Description:
12 cards : illustrations ; each 38 x 75 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Skeleton.

No cover image available
Creator:
Cradock-Watson, Jane
Date:
[2010]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([7] panels) : illustrations ; 10 x 42 cm, folded to 10 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
1874-1924
Physical Description:
1 volume (approximately 200 pages) : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Machin, Liz
Date:
2010
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([8] panels) : illustrations ; 21 x 29 cm, folded to 11 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

40. Leaves.

No cover image available
Creator:
Cradock-Watson, Jane
Date:
[2009]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([36] panels) : color illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Seymour, Louisa Caroline Harcourt, 1828–1889
Date:
ca. 1844?
Physical Description:
1 volume (60 leaves, some blank) ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Made Collective (Artist's group)
Date:
21 x 23 x 5 cm
Physical Description:
[Manchester] : [Made Collective], [2010]
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Cradock-Watson, Jane
Date:
[2012]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet, (4 panels) : color illustrations ; 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
K. M. T
Date:
1899-1901
Physical Description:
1 volume (33 drawings) : watercolor over graphite ; 15 x 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
100 harebells : Laurie Clark.
Creator:
Clark, Laurie
Date:
2012
Physical Description:
[100] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
100 buttercups : Laurie Clark.
Creator:
Clark, Laurie
Date:
2010
Physical Description:
[96] p. : all col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Jones, Shirley
Date:
[1990]
Physical Description:
1 box ([8] sheets (some folded), [7] leaves of plates) : ill. ; 46 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Bush, Tracey
Date:
London?,
Physical Description:
1 cut-paper work : hand-cut paper, glass ; approximately 35 x 30 x 47 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Jillian Barker, Royal Opera House.
No cover image available
Creator:
Cradock-Watson, Jane
Date:
[2011]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([12] panels) : color illustrations ; 15 x 103 cm, folded to 15 x 10 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Hyslop, Jane
Date:
2009
Physical Description:
1 print : hand-cut and hand-colored etching ; image 30 x 24 cm, on sheet 39 x 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Bonnell, Mandy
Date:
[2012-2014]
Physical Description:
8 packets (32 drawings) : graphite ; sheets 20 x 20 cm, in box 22 x 22 x 5 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of the artist
No cover image available
Date:
[circa 1880?]
Physical Description:
12 doilies in 1 album : plant material ; each doily 16 cm diameter, in album 18 cm x 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Rook, Anne
Date:
2009
Physical Description:
[12] pages : illustrations ; 27 x 27 cm, folded to 13 x 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Potter, Susanna, 1802–1872
Date:
1823-circa 1860
Physical Description:
1 volume (108 leaves) : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
1829-1834
Physical Description:
1 volume (70 leaves, some blank) : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Kennedy, Elizabeth Gray, 1808–1889
Date:
1856-1858
Physical Description:
1 volume ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Lauren Brown.
No cover image available
Date:
between 1830 and 1840
Physical Description:
1 volume (131 pages) : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Macgregor, Paula
Date:
[2009?]
Physical Description:
1 box : col. ill. ; 8 x 5 x 3 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Date:
1851-1860
Physical Description:
2 boxes (approximately 200 specimens) ; boxes each 37 x 29 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

60. Stellata.

No cover image available
Creator:
Cradock-Watson, Jane
Date:
2010
Physical Description:
[16] leaves : color illustrations ; 11 x 14 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

61. Flutter.

No cover image available
Creator:
Cradock-Watson, Jane
Date:
[2010]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([7] panels) : color illustrations ; 10 x 56 cm, folded to 10 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

62. Texture.

No cover image available
Creator:
Cradock-Watson, Jane
Date:
[2010]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([10] panels) : color illustrations ; 10 x 56 cm, folded to 10 x 8 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Hyslop, Jane
Date:
2010
Physical Description:
1 print (6 pieces) : hand-cut and hand-colored etching ; image 40 x 45 cm, on sheet 48 x 48 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Welch, Corinne
Date:
[2012]
Physical Description:
[16] pages : color illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

65. In vein.

No cover image available
Creator:
Cradock-Watson, Jane
Date:
[2011]
Physical Description:
[36] leaves : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
No cover image available
Creator:
Curtis, Aza
Date:
1827
Physical Description:
[41] leaves : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts