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Drawings for the United States Naval Expedition to Japan and United States North Pacific Exploring Expedition
Collection Identifier: gra00080Scope and Contents:
The collection consists of 64 black and white drawings created by Isaac Sprague depicting new species of Japanese plants. Asa Gray hired Sprague to create the drawings with the intention of publishing them; however, they were never published. Most of the drawings measure 28 x 37 cm with the exception of two drawings that measure 38 x 55 cm.Asa Gray identified 29 of the drawings by scientific name in pencil on the front. He also wrote “paid” in pencil on the reverse of some...
Hunnewell herbarium watercolors
Collection Identifier: gra00051Scope 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.”
Tessie K. Frank watercolors
Collection Identifier: gra00006Scope and content:
This collection contains 1,643 watercolor paintings of plants and flowers by Frank and fifteen of blank picture postcards and photographs of flowers. Scientific name and common name are often typed or written on the painting. This may have been done by the artist.
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- Frank, Tessie K., 1872-1938 1
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- Sprague, Isaac, 1811-1895 1
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- Watercolors (paintings) 2
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- Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 1
- Hunnewell, Mary P. 1
- Sprague, Isaac, 1811-1895 1
- United States Naval Expedition to Japan (1852-1854) 1
- United States North Pacific Exploring Expedition (1853-1856) 1