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ANSP collection of mastodon drawings
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0281
Scope and Contents
The three folio watercolors are by an unknown artist, the designs possibly portraying Mastodon giganteus, which was mounted by James Hall in Albany. The three items are: watercolor of the mounted animal as a design for a
fountain, profile of skeleton with the foundation structure, and the foundation only, showing the plan of the water and fountain heads.During research for "All in the Bones: A Biography of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins" Bob Peck determined that these paintings...
Dates:
undated
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
Richard Hovendon Kern and Edward Kern paintings
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0146
Overview
Richard H. and Edward Meyer Kern, artists and western explorers, gave the American public some of its earliest authentic graphic images of the people and landscape of Arizona, New Mexico, and southern Colorado; providing views of Canyon de Chelly, Chaco Canyon, and El Morro (Inscription Rock). This collection contains Richard and Edward's original drawings from J.H. Simpson's military reconaissance expedition to the Navajos in 1849.
Dates:
1849