Illustrations
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:
Andrew Garrett Illustrations
Collection — Box Small Collections 10
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0403
Overview
Andrew Garrett, 1823-1887, was an American explorer, self taught naturalist and artist specializing in malacology and ichthyology. Many of his works are considered classics, including his multi-volumed catalog Fische der Sundsee, and particularly his "Terrestrial Mollusca Inhabiting the Society Islands" (JANSP 9: 17-114), which formed the basis for the important work of Hartman and Crampton. This collection includes 20 watercolors of slugs, collected and drawn from life by Andrew Garrett....
Dates:
ca. 1873
Mildred Appel drawings
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0659
Scope and Contents
Pen-and-ink drawings of plants in family Scrophulariaceae, from West Indies, Central and South America. Unsigned but ascribed to Appel on basis of known work and employment by Academy.
Transferred to Academy Archives by A.E. Schuyler of the Botany Department on Dec. 12, 1962.
Dates:
undated
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins Album
Collection — Box 1-2
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0803
Overview
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, author, sculptor and naturalist, began this album in 1872, and continued to add to it intermittently, the last datable entry being of 1878. In its entirety, the album contains 56 items, including manuscripts, clippings, and images. This finding aid contains only the images found within the album. These images consist of 37 items: 16 photographic sepia prints, 10 prints, 3 b&w photographic prints, 3 wash drawings, 2 ink drawings, 2 watercolor drawings, and 1...
Dates:
circa 1853-1875
David A. Johnson collection
Collection
Identifier: 2019-035
Overview
Collections includes homeopathy materials such as books and other publications, bottles and boxes of remedies, two kits, an illustration, and certificates.
Dates:
1855-1999; Majority of material found in 1855-1915
Edward Dodd Illustrations
Collection — Drawer 34
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0750
Overview
Edward Benton Dodd, 1904-1991, studied technology in Georgia and at the Art Students League in New York. In 1946, Ed Dodd launched his ecological comic strip Mark Trail, where he could express his love for wide landscapes. The comic strip is about a nature writer, Mark Trail, who lives in the forest, combatting poachers and drug smugglers, while giving lessons about various wild creatures. The collection contains twelve Mark Trail comic strips of by Ed Dodd. The strips cover such natural...
Dates:
1960
Eugene Abraham Rau Lepidoptera Notes and Watercolors
Collection — Box Small Collections 14
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0702
Overview
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.
Dates:
c. 1874
Hans Troschel Woodcuts
Collection — Drawer 34
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0749
Overview
Hans Troschel, 1899-1979, received his schooling at the Bauhaus School in Germany. Before World War 2, he was a teacher of self-expression in the arts. During the war he was taken captive and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. In 1954 he regained his freedom and returned to Germany where he continued to work and teach. The collection contains six woodcuts of birds and mammals, including a buzzard, osprey, wild geese, doe, a squirrel and a cat. Troschel made the prints in 1960, after his...
Dates:
1960
Helen Winchester illustrations
Collection — Box Small Collections 9
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0394
Scope and Contents
Helen Winchester was a scientific artist who worked for the Academy for many years during the first half of this century. She made illustrations for several departments, but her most extended work was for the shell department. This collection contains a single original watercolor plate of Liguus shells which was published as the frontispiece of vol. 2, part 1 of the Academy's Monographs, 1946. Another plate with shell illustrations has been added to the collection, as well as some...
Dates:
1907, 1910, 1946, undated
Nicholas Marcellus Hentz watercolors
Collection — Box Small Collections 17
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0971
Overview
Nicholas Marcellus Hentz (1797-1856) was a French-born entomologist, engraver, and miniature painter who spoke several languages and studied medicine in Paris and at Harvard. Hentz became a member of ANSP in 1819 and remained so until his death in 1856, illustrating articles published in the Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. This collection includes three watercolors by Nicholas Hentz: two paintings of freshwater fish from Alabama, ca. 1847 and one miniature of...
Dates:
circa 1824-circa 1847
John R. Quinn Illustrations
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0730
Overview
John R. Quinn, 1938-, artist and naturalist, was an Academy employee in the exhibits department. Quinn spent the month of March in 1968 working on illustrations for De Schaunsee's A guide to The Birds of South America. The collection contains thirty acrylic paintings of South American birds: nineteen in color, eleven in black white. The figures were done from study skins in the Academy's collection pluslive birds mist-netted in Trinidad, as well as notes and sketches supplied by Don...
Dates:
1970