Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of 25 drawings (both pencil and watercolor) and seven hand colored plates of North North American mollusks, a drawing of a salamander, and three of her early experimental etchings. The works measure from 10 x 12 cm. to 22 x 15 cm. The collection also contains drawings by other artists: two sketches by James Morton, a watercolor of Pompilius by Titian Ramsay Peale, 1799-1885, an early etching by Alexander Wilson, 1766-1813, a watercolor of Floridan mollusks attributed...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of 25 drawings (both pencil and watercolor) and seven hand colored plates of North North American mollusks, a drawing of a salamander, and three of her early experimental etchings. The works measure from 10 x 12 cm. to 22 x 15 cm. The collection also contains drawings by other artists: two sketches by James Morton, a watercolor of Pompilius by Titian Ramsay Peale, 1799-1885, an early etching by Alexander Wilson, 1766-1813, a watercolor of Floridan mollusks attributed...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of 25 drawings (both pencil and watercolor) and seven hand colored plates of North North American mollusks, a drawing of a salamander, and three of her early experimental etchings. The works measure from 10 x 12 cm. to 22 x 15 cm. The collection also contains drawings by other artists: two sketches by James Morton, a watercolor of Pompilius by Titian Ramsay Peale, 1799-1885, an early etching by Alexander Wilson, 1766-1813, a watercolor of Floridan mollusks attributed...

Overview The first woman to be elected a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Lucy Say was an accomplished nature artist and scientific collaborator with her famous husband Thomas Say. She made 66 of the 68 delicate and accurate drawings of North American mollusks for Thomas Say's American Conchology, at New Harmony, and did most of the painstaking coloring of the plates. This collection consists of 25 drawings (pencil and watercolor), seven hand colored plates of North American...