Ornithology
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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
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?