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Helen E. Lawson, Illustrations, 1842-1857
Collection — Box: Small Collections 16
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0912
Overview
Helen Elizabeth Lawson, the second daughter of Alexander and Elizabeth De Scaife Lawson, was born in Philadelphia sometime in or about the year 1808. An accomplished scientific illustrator, her contemporaries described her work to be "so perfect as certainly leave nothing to be desired", and H.A. Pilsbry stated that he considered her illustrations for Amos Binney's The Terrestrial Air-breathing Mollusks of the United States, to be the finest shell illustrations ever made. This collection...
Dates:
1842-1857
Lucy Way Say, Papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0433
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...
Dates:
1822-85
T.A. Conrad Shell Illustration and Unrelated List
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: ANSP-2013-005
Scope and Contents
This collection contains two seemingly unrelated items found in the Library Map Room - Greenfield Imaging Center during a clean-out in 2012. One item is a shell illustration by T.A. Conrad, no date. The other is a list, no author.
Dates:
ca. 1840