Drawings
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, Lithographs
Collection — Box Oversize Small Collections 7
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0448
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are all labeled "Unpublished.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...
Dates:
1829
Charles George Wood drawings
Collection — Box Oversize Small Collections 2
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0415
Scope and Contents
This single item is a folded drawing of the head of a wild boar (?) from the Island of Celebes, which is owned by Hugh Cuming of Valparaizo.
Dates:
none
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
James Abram Garfield Rehn (1881-1965) Papers.
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0734
Dates:
1881-1965
Jason Poole's Sketches of Irish Elk (Megaloceros) and Narwhal (Monodon) Mounts for 2012 Exhibition
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-2011-033
Louis Agassiz Fuertes Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0797
Scope and Contents
Collection consists of Fuertes material amassed from 1976 to 2000, containing the following items: calendar for 1984, illustrated with Fuertes images, and published by El Museo del Barrio in New York; copy of Fuertes's "Images of Tropical Bird Voices," published in Bird-Lore in 1913, given to Academy Curator Witmer Stone in 1915 and so inscribed; Fuertes's illustrations on cards distributed in packages of baking soda by its manufacturer, Arm & Hammer; copy of U.S. Department of...
Dates:
1874-1927
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
Earl Lincoln Poole papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0458
Scope and Contents
The Earl Lincoln Poole papers house records created by Poole in the study of ornithology and related disciplines, and his illustrations for Academy collaborations. The collection dates from 1915 to 1972 and contains paintings, illustrations, printing blocks, rough drafts, notes, maps, field notes, correspondence, index cards, photographs, slides, newspaper clippings, and ephemera. These materials document Poole's work as an illustrator for Academy ornithologists, his efforts to document the...
Dates:
1915 - 1972
Shane Stratton drawing of Irish Elk antlers
Collection — Drawer 55
Identifier: ANSP-2012-068
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the original pastel chalk drawing of the antlers of an Irish Elk by Shane Stratton. A copy of this drawing is on view in the Art of Science Gallery as part of the Irish Elk exhibit.
Dates:
2000s