COLLECTION
Identifier: MS Am 3328
Metalpoint drawings of botanical specimens by Kandy Vermeer Phillips
Overview
Metalpoint drawings inspired by Emily Dickinson's herbarium by artist, Kandy Vermeer Phillips.
Dates
- 2018
Creator
- Phillips, Kandy Vermeer (Artist, Person)
Condition Description
Excellent
Conditions Governing Access
Open for research.
This collection is shelved offsite at the Harvard Depository. Retrieval requires advance notice. Readers should check with Houghton Public Services staff to determine what material is offsite and retrieval policies and times.
Extent
.08 linear feet (1 box)
Collection of six metalpoint drawings of plants inspired by Emily Dickinson's herbarium.
Biographical / Historical
The drawings form part of a set of 12 completed with the 2017 Julius I. Brown Award grant issued by the American Society of Botanical Artists for her project Poetry in Silver: The Language of Flowers in the Works of Emily Dickinson based on Dickinson's herbarium and poetry.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by common plant name.
Physical Location
Harvard Depository
Immediate Source of Acquisition
2020M-9. Gift of Kandis Vermeer Phillips, 2019 July.
Creator
- Phillips, Kandy Vermeer (Artist, Person)
- Title
- Phillips, Kandis Vermeer. Metalpoint drawings of botanical specimens by Kandy Vermeer Phillips, 2018 (MS Am 3328): Guide
- Status
- completed
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard University
- Date
- 2019 July 26
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- Finding aid written in English.
- EAD ID
- hou03236
Repository Details
Part of the Houghton Library Repository
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Harvard Yard
Harvard University
Cambridge MA 02138 USA
(617) 495-2440
Houghton_Library@harvard.edu