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Manuel Eyre Collection of Paintings of Chinese Plants, Animals, Insects and Birds
Collection — drawer: 50
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0476
Scope and Contents
Chinese paintings done in pure tempora colors, bound in two volumes of 118 and 141 pages respectively. The first volume contains 77 botanical plates while the second has 20 plates of mammals, 23 of insects and 28 of birds. Bound in green tapestry cloth, with woven design of swastikas.Presented to the Academy of Natural Sciences by Mrs. Roland R. Foulke (Ellen Griffith Foulke) on December 16, 1933, in memory of Robert Eglesfeld Griffith. The volumes have been in the possession...
Dates:
1650-1750