Illustrations -- 1800-1900
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Edward S. Morse Notebooks
Collection
Identifier: A2025-02-01
Content Description
This collection contains volumes of papers and publications by Edward S. Morse. The publications feature his work in various scientific and naturalist journals, including the Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History (BSNH), The Nautilus, and Science. There are many illustrations by hand of various members of the mollusk family, as well as close studies of parts of birds. Tucked into volumes are letters about his publications and studies, more illustrations by hand, illustrated...
Dates:
1857 - 1962; Majority of material found within 1857 - 1926
Louis Alphonse de Brebisson Grasshopper Drawings
Collection
Identifier: A2023-03-01
Content Description
A collection of grasshopper illustrations done by Louis Alphonse de Brebisson in about 1834. These illustrations come from the Scudder estate, 1941.
Dates:
1834
Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks. Original Drawings.
Collection
Identifier: A2025-03-01
Content Description
This volume contains illustrations from volumes 1 through 3 of "The Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of the United States" cut out and pasted onto the volume's pages. The illustrations are arranged in the order of publication with hand written labels for each plate and the volume they came from written in the upper right hand corner of each page. Many of the illustrations have additional notes and labels written on the actual plate, and not the page of the volume. While the illustrated...
Dates:
1851 - 1933; Modified: The date range is such because while we know when the original volumes are published (in 1851), we do not know when this volume was formed. We know that it was formed by the time it was gifted to the Boston Society of Natural History in 1933.