Yale Center for British Art
Creator:
Ward, Mary, 1827-1869
Title:
Sketches with the microscope : in a letter to a friend.
Published / Created:
Parsontown [Ireland] : F.H. Shields, Printer, 1857.
Physical Description:
56 pages, [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
QH205 .W36 1857
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:3743013
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Text and illustrations by Mary Ward. See Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Of green leaf, bird, and flower: artists' books and the natural world, p. 222

BAC: British Art Center copy bound in publisher's gold- and blind- stamped green cloth. Binder's ticket: Cavenagh, Bookbinder, Dublin.
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)
Subject Terms:
Microscopes. | Microscopy. | Natural history. | Trench, G. -- Presentation inscription to Harriett Trench. | Trench, Harriett -- Presentation inscription from G. Trench. | Trench, Harriett -- Presentation inscription to John K. Woods. | Woods, John K. -- Presentation inscription from Harriet Trench.
Form/Genre:
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1857.