Catalogue of the Botanical Art Collection at the Hunt Institute

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Accession Number: 0330
Artist Name: Saint Aubin, Charles Germaine
Life Span: (1721-1786)
Nationality: France
Gender: Male
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Title: Semy doubles et Bruyere
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Description: flowers
Medium: etching
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 27.5 x 21.5
Image Size: 23.5 x 17.5
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Published: Saint Aubin, C. G. ca.1750–1780. Mes Petits Bouquets. Paris: the author.
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Accession Number: 0331
Artist Name: Saint Aubin, Charles Germaine
Life Span: (1721-1786)
Nationality: France
Gender: Male
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Title: Champignons d'Angleterre
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Description: flowers
Medium: etching
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 27.5 x 21.5
Image Size: 23.5 x 17.5
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Accession Number: 0332
Artist Name: Saint Aubin, Charles Germaine
Life Span: (1721-1786)
Nationality: France
Gender: Male
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Title: Choux de Suede
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Description: flowers
Medium: etching
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 27.5 x 21.5
Image Size: 23.5 x 17.5
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Published: Saint Aubin, C. G. ca.1750–1780. Mes Petits Bouquets. Paris: the author.
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Accession Number: 0333
Artist Name: Saint Aubin, Charles Germaine
Life Span: (1721-1786)
Nationality: France
Gender: Male
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Title: Jacinthe et Grenadille
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Description: flowers
Medium: etching
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 27.5 x 21.5
Image Size: 23.5 x 17.5
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Published: Saint Aubin, C. G. ca.1750–1780. Mes Petits Bouquets. Paris: the author.
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Notes: Pencil sketch on reverse.
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Accession Number: 0334
Artist Name: Smith, Edwin Dalton
Life Span: 1800–1883?
Nationality: England
Gender: Male
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Title: Fuchsia gracilis
Taxon:

Fuchsia gracilis Lindley, Onagraceae

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Medium: engraving, hand-colored
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 26.5 x 20
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Published: ''14'' (t.r.).
Printmaker: Watts, S.
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Accession Number: 0335
Artist Name: Snelling, Lilian
Life Span: (1879-1972)
Nationality: England
Gender: Female
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Title: Codonopsis subglobosa
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Codonopsis subglobosa W. W. Smith, Campanulaceae

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Medium: watercolor
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 28 x 16.5
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Date of Execution: 1920
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Signature: L. S. (b.r.)
Published: ''8870, 23'' (t.r.).
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HIBD Exhibitions: Contemporary Botanical Art and Illustration [1st International] (1964)
HIBD Publications: Lawrence, G. H. M., comp. 1964. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Contemporary Botanical Art and Illustration [1st International]. Pittsburgh: Hunt Botanical Library. P. 73.
Accession Number: 0336
Artist Name: Tabel, Leonore
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Gender: Female
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Aquilegia Linnaeus, Ranunculaceae

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Medium: colored pencil
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 23 x 23
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Accession Number: 0337
Artist Name: Vauthier, Antoine Charles
Life Span: 1790–1831
Nationality: France
Gender: Male
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Title: Andromeda rupestris Forster
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Andromeda rupestris G. Forster, Ericaceae

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Medium: engraving
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 40 x 26.5
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Published: Dumont d’Urville, J. S. C. 1830–1834. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe : exécuté par ordre du roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829. Paris: J. Tastu. Pl. 27.
Printmaker: Dunaime
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Accession Number: 0338
Artist Name: Wendland, Johann Christoph
Life Span: (1755-1828)
Nationality: Germany
Gender: Male
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Title: Erica baccans L.
Taxon:

Erica Linnaeus, Ericaceae

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Medium: etching, hand-colored
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 30.5 x 26.5
Image Size: 23 x 16
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Published: Wendland, J. C., [1798–]1804–1823. Ericarum Icones et Descriptiones. 3 vols. Hanover: Hahn. Vol. 1. Plate [6].
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Accession Number: 0339
Artist Name: Wendland, Johann Christoph
Life Span: (1755-1828)
Nationality: Germany
Gender: Male
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Title: Erica cruenta Ait.
Taxon:

Erica cruenta Solander, Ericaceae

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Medium: etching, hand-colored
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Dimensions (cm): 30.5 x 26.5
Image Size: 23 x 16
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Published: Wendland, J. C. [1798–]1804–1823. Ericarum Icones et Descriptiones. 3 vols. Hanover: Hahn. Vol. 1. Plate [5].
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Accession Number: 0340
Artist Name: Wendland, Johann Christoph
Life Span: (1755-1828)
Nationality: Germany
Gender: Male
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Title: Erica ciliaris L.
Taxon:

Erica ciliaris Linnaeus, Ericaceae

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Medium: etching, hand-colored
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 30.5 x 26.5
Image Size: 23 x 16
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Published: Wendland, J. C., [1798–]1804–1823. Ericarum Icones et Descriptiones. 3 vols. Hanover: Hahn. Vol. 1. Plate [1].
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Accession Number: 0341
Artist Name: Wendland, Johann Christoph
Life Span: (1755-1828)
Nationality: Germany
Gender: Male
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Title: Erica grandiflora longifolia
Taxon:

Erica Linnaeus, Ericaceae

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Medium: etching, hand-colored
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 30.5 x 26.5
Image Size: 23 x 16
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Published: Wendland, J. C., [1798–]1804–1823. Ericarum Icones et Descriptiones. 3 vols. Hanover: Hahn. Vol. 1. Pl. [2].
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Accession Number: 0342
Artist Name: Wendland, Johann Christoph
Life Span: (1755-1828)
Nationality: Germany
Gender: Male
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Title: Allamanda cathartica
Taxon:

Allamanda cathartica Linnaeus, Apocynaceae

Description:
Medium: intaglio, hand-colored
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 48.5 x 30.5
Image Size: 31.5 x 21
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Published: ''Tab XXII'' (t.r.)
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Accession Number: 0343
Artist Name: Gentle, Esther
Life Span: 1899-1991
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Gender: Female
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Rhododendron Linnaeus, Ericaceae

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Medium: serigraph
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 29 x 21.5
Image Size: 25 x 20.5
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Signature: Esther Gentle (b.r.)
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Accession Number: 0344
Artist Name: Monnoyer, Jean Baptiste
Life Span: (1636-1699)
Nationality: France
Gender: Male
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Credit: Courtesy, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
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Description: garden with urn
Medium: engraving
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 71.6 x 53.2
Image Size: 49.5 x 38
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Printmaker: Monnoyer, Jean Baptiste
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Accession Number: 0345
Artist Name: Monnoyer, Jean-Baptiste
Life Span: (1636-1699)
Nationality: France
Gender: Male
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Credit: Courtesy, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
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Description: floral garland with urn
Medium: engraving, hand-colored
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 67.5 x 53
Image Size: 49 x 37.5
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Notes: Exhibited in Books Drawings Prints from the Botanical Collection of Mrs. Roy Arthur Hunt, University of Virginia, 25 April–10 June 1952, hosted by the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
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Accession Number: 0346
Artist Name: Huysum, Jan van
Life Span: (1682-1749)
Nationality: Netherlands
Gender: Male
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Title: A fruit piece.
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Description: fruit
Medium: mezzotint, hand-colored
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 62.5 x 47.5
Image Size: 55.5 x 42
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Published: "published Sepr. 1st 1781 by John Boydell Engraver, in Cheapside London" (b.c.)
Printmaker: Earlom, Richard from drawing by Joseph Farington
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Accession Number: 0347
Artist Name: Huysum, Jan van
Life Span: (1682-1749)
Nationality: Netherlands
Gender: Male
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Title: A flower piece.
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Description: flowers in urn
Medium: mezzotint, hand-colored
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 62.5 x 47.5
Image Size: 55.2 x 41.9
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Published: "published June 25th 1778 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London" (b.c.)
Printmaker: Earlom, Richard from drawing by Joseph Farington
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Accession Number: 0348
Artist Name: Huysum, Jan van
Life Span: (1682-1749)
Nationality: Netherlands
Gender: Male
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Title: A flower piece.
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Description: flowers in urn
Medium: mezzotint, hand-colored
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 62.5 x 47.5
Image Size: 55.2 x 41.9
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Published: "published June 25th 1778 by John Boydell Engraver in Cheapside London" (b.c.)
Printmaker: Earlom, Richard from drawing by Joseph Farington
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Accession Number: 0349
Artist Name: Pope, Clara Maria
Life Span: (1768–1838)
Nationality: England
Gender: Female
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Rosa, Rosaceae

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Medium: watercolor
Support: illustration board
Dimensions (cm): 51 x 42.5
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Accession Number: 0350
Artist Name: Schlageter, Laura (Mrs. Karl H. Krause)
Life Span: (1922-2000)
Nationality: United States
Gender: Female
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Fungi

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Medium: watercolor
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 38.5 x 56
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Date of Execution: 1950
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Signature: L. Schlageter (b.r.)
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HIBD Exhibitions: 2nd International Exhibition of Botanical Art & Illustration (1968)
HIBD Publications: Lawrence, G. H. M., comp. 1968. Catalogue [of the] 2nd International Exhibition of Botanical Art & Illustration. Pittsburgh: Hunt Botanical Library. Pp. 220-221.
Accession Number: 0351
Artist Name: Schlageter, Laura (Mrs. Karl H. Krause)
Life Span: (1922-2000)
Nationality: United States
Gender: Female
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Fungi

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Medium: watercolor
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Dimensions (cm): 38.5 x 55.5
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Accession Number: 0352
Artist Name: Galsworthy, Frank
Life Span: (1863-1959)
Nationality: England
Gender: Male
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Description: camellias in bowl
Medium: watercolor
Support: paper
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Image Size: 37 x 50.5 mat opening
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Date of Execution: 1948
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Signature: Frank Galsworthy (b.l.)
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Accession Number: 0354
Artist Name: Sharp, William
Life Span: (1803-1875)
Nationality: England and United States
Gender: Male
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Title: Victoria Regia
Taxon:

Victoria amazonica (Poeppig) Sowerby, Nymphaeaceae

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Medium: lithograph, color
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Dimensions (cm): 55.5 x 73.5
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Published: Allen, J. F. 1854. Victoria Regia. Boston: printed and published for the author by Dutton and Wentworth.
Printmaker: Sharp and Son
Notes: Exhibited in Books Drawings Prints from the Botanical Collection of Mrs. Roy Arthur Hunt, University of Virginia, 25 April–10 June 1952, hosted by the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
HIBD Exhibitions: Botany and History Entwined: Rachel Hunt's Legacy (2011)
HIBD Publications: Tancin, C. A., L. B. Bruno, A. L. Todd and D. W. Brown. 2011. Botany and History Entwined: Rachel Hunt's Legacy. Pittsburgh: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation. P. 57.
Accession Number: 0355
Artist Name: Sharp, William
Life Span: (1803-1875)
Nationality: England and United States
Gender: Male
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Title: Victoria Regia
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Victoria amazonica (Poeppig) Sowerby, Nymphaeaceae

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Dimensions (cm): 55.5 x 73.5
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Published: Allen, J. F. 1854. Victoria Regia. Boston: printed and published for the author by Dutton and Wentworth.
Printmaker: Sharp and Son
Notes: Exhibited in Books Drawings Prints from the Botanical Collection of Mrs. Roy Arthur Hunt, University of Virginia, 25 April–10 June 1952, hosted by the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
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