COLLECTION Identifier: gra00051

Hunnewell herbarium watercolors

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of six watercolors by Hunnewell painted from four specimens she collected in the Pyrenees in France. Four paintings have printed specimen labels from the attached. The printed labels originally read “F.W. Hunnewell, 2nd.” The “F.W.” has been crossed out and replaced with “M.P.”

Dates

1900

Creator

Hunnewell, Mary P. (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is available by appointment for research. Researchers must register and provide valid photo identification. Please contact botref@oeb.harvard.edu for additional information.

Extent

0.1 linear feet (6 leaves of paintings)

Additional Description

Biographical Note

Mary Peele Hunnewell was born on November 17, 1875, in Wellesley, Massachusetts, to Walter and Jane Appleton Peele Hunnewell. She was the younger sister of amateur botanist Francis Welles Hunnewell. She married Sidney M. Williams in 1908 and lived in Wellesley her entire life. She died in 1920.

Sources

Vital Statistic Records, Massachusetts Archives.

Fiske JE. 1917. History of the Town of Wellesley, Massachusetts. Boston (MA): The Pilgrim Press.