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Alexander Lawson Scrapbooks of Engravings
Collection
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0079
Overview
Alexander Lawson, engraver, died in 1846, leaving behind a great quantity of his own and other artist's work. His daughters, Malvinia and Mary, constructed a scrapbook filled with these artworks, which they donated to the Academy. The scrapbook contains 532 prints, drawings, and watercolors illustrating natural history and scientific books or periodicals, including zoological, ornithological and medical illustrations, as well as technical illustrations and illustration for novels and...
Dates:
1796 - 1851; Majority of material found within 1806 - 1842
Alexander Wilson, Copper plates
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0427
Scope and Contents
Engraved copper plates from which 10 of the illustrations of Wilson's American Ornithology were printed, namely pls. 1-5, 7-9 of vol. 1 and pls. 10-11 of v. 2. 26 x 33 cm. These were engraved by Alexander Lawson and are accompanied by a carbon of the letter of appreciation of the Academy to the donor.
Dates:
1808-1810
Alexander Wilson papers
Collection — Box: Small Collections 2
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0052
Scope and Contents
This collection consists primarily of biographical material from various sources, very little original material being owned by the Academy, which has only a few autographs on photos or in books, with an occasional letter.Signers of letters and documents: Allen, Elsa G. (7) 1948-52; Brooks, H. W., Jr. 1931; Cochran, Alex. 1943; Fraser, Joseph T., Jr. 1943; Huston, McCready (7) 1943-4; Marsh, Charles J. 1943; Paterson, A. B. (2) 1943-4; Phillips, Venia T. (6) 1948-52; Richardson,...
Dates:
1811-1943
Alexander Wilson's Double-Barreled Shotgun
Item — no container: 1
Identifier: ANSP-2011-034-Artifact
Scope and Contents
Hammer lock double barreled shotgun, maybe 20 gauge. Probably walnut right-handed stock with raised cheek piece. Includes ramrod, with pineapple decor forward of the trigger guard.
Dates:
circa 1790s-1800s
Spackman Family, Ornithological workbook
Collection — Box: Small Collections 10
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0428
Scope and Contents
This volume represents a series of numbered sheets, continuing to no.
385, but with a great many gaps. Each sheet was repaired and the full gathering
bound by a former librarian. Each carries a watercolor of a bird, the
drawings seemingly copied from Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology.
The volume was originally labeled: "Wilson's original drawings" but this
note lightly crossed out and in the hand of E. J. Nolan another note "Not
Wilson's drawings" inserted. Again below the original...
Dates:
1842?
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- Names
- Lawson, Alexander, 1773-1846 2
- Stone, Witmer, 1866-1939 2
- Barralet, John James (approximately 1747-1815) 1
- Birch, Thomas, 1779-1851 1
- Gambel, William, 1823-1849 1
- Lawson, Helen Elizabeth, 1808?-1853 1
- Lawson, Oscar A., 1813-1854 1
- Leidy, Joseph, 1823-1891 1
- Lizars, Daniel, 1760-1812 1
- Nolan, Edward J. (Edward James), 1846-1921 1
- Ord, George, 1781-1866 1
- Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885 1
- Rider, Alexander (active 1810-1834) 1
- Rindisbacher, Peter, 1806-1834 1
- Seymour, Samuel (active 1796-1823) 1
- Spawn, Carol 1
- Stephens, Henry (Henry "Harry" G. Stephens) 1
- Strickland, William, 1787-1854 1
- Verreaux, Jules, 1807-1873 1 ∧ less
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