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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...

Scope and Contents Hawkins was an English anatomist, osteologist and paleontologist, but apparently confined his interests to skeletal aspects, stressing comparative osteology as an approach to artistic representations. One paper appeared in the Academy's Proceedings for 1874, "On the Pelvis of Hadrosaurus", and another in New York in 1870 on Ichthyosaurus. He was elected to the Academy as a corresponding member in 1868. These colored lithographs, are all labeled "Unpublished. Annonymous." However printed on...

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Eugene A. Rau (1848-1932), a Bethlehem, Pennsylvania pharmacist, is best known for his development of the pharmaceutical and botanical sciences. This collection includes sixteen pages of notes (numbered 1-16) followed by twenty-seven illustrations of lepidoptera (numbered 17-44). The lepidoptera are done in pencil and watercolor and in most cases include notes. Judging from Rau's notes, the drawings are of lepidoptera from the Academy's collections during Rau's time.

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...

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This collecection consists of reproductions of James Prosek's original artwork, displayed in an exhibition of his work, entitled "Ocean Fishes", which was displayed in the Academy's Science Live gallery October 12, 2012 - January 21, 2013. The Academy paid about $1240 for them to be made. They are printed to scale on Tyvek.

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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.

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...

Scope and Contents The collection consists of 487 natural history drawings in watercolor, wash, ink, gauche, and tempera, primarily created between 1834 and 1936. The majority of subjects are birds, but mammals are also included. The collection is made up of 220 drawings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, 1874-1927, 71 by John L. (John Livesy) Ridgway (b. 1859), 63 by Robert J. Sim, 29 by W. T. Allan, 27 by Ernest Thomas Seton (1860-1946), 13 by Allan Brooks (1869-1946), 11 by D. Darling, 8 by Earl L. Poole, 5 by...

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Fossil starfish depicted on three plates, one an original watercolor, the other two being artist's proofs of lithographs of Asteria species. Only one is referred to Whitby as: "Asterias, from oolith sandstone," W. Whitby. The watercolor has penciled legend: "Starfish in sandstone of the Coralline oolite, near Pickering . . . Purchased for the collection of Thos. Wilson, Esq. of Newark, Del." Wilson died in 1865.

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This collection contains watercolor paintings of birds by an unknown artist, ca. 1915.