Skip to main content

Letter

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

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