Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Rosemarie Haag Bletter and Martin Filler.
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Archives & Manuscripts
Notes:
Manuscript school notebook on botany, illustrated with watercolor drawings, kept by Maggie Mackenzie, ca. 1850. Writing is in a clean cursive hand throughout, with calligraphic headings; it is probably the work of a girl in middle or late adolescence. Nine leaves are illustrated, in part or entirely. Illustrations comprise small drawings of plants or plant parts, drawn in watercolor over graphite.
Subject Terms:
Natural history -- Study and teaching. | Botany -- Study and teaching. | Plant morphology -- Study and teaching. | Vegetation classification -- Great Britain. | School notebooks -- Great Britain. | Women in natural history.