Catalogue of the Botanical Art Collection at the Hunt Institute
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Accession Number: 0445
Artist Name: Holden, Samuel
Life Span: (fl.1834–1849)
Nationality: England
Gender: Male
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Credit: Courtesy, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Title: Passiflora middletoniana
Taxon:
Passiflora Linnaeus, Passifloraceae
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Medium: lithograph, hand-colored
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 23 x 15.5
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Published: Paxtons's Mag. Bot. 9: pl. 51. 1842.
Printmaker: Samuel Holden
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Accession Number: 0446
Artist Name: Holden, Samuel
Life Span: (fl.1834–1849)
Nationality: England
Gender: Male
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Title: Fuchsia serratifolia
Taxon:
Fuchsia Linnaeus, Onagraceae
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Medium: lithograph, hand-colored
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Published: Paxtons's Mag. Bot. 12: opp. p. 169. 1846.
Printmaker: Samuel Holden
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Accession Number: 0447
Artist Name: Holden, Samuel
Life Span: (fl.1834–1849)
Nationality: England
Gender: Male
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Title: Phlox Van Hootie
Taxon:
Phlox Linnaeus, Polemoniaceae
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Medium: lithograph, hand-colored
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Published: Paxton's Mag. Bot. 11: opp. p. 173. 1844.
Printmaker: Samuel Holden
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: 0448
Artist Name: Holden, Samuel
Life Span: (fl.1834–1849)
Nationality: England
Gender: Male
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Title: Bignonia chamberlaynii
Taxon:
Bignonia Linnaeus, Bignoniaceae
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Medium: lithograph, hand-colored
Support: paper
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Published: Paxton's Mag. Bot. 16: opp. p. 3. 1848.
Printmaker: Samuel Holden
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Accession Number: 0449
Artist Name: Holden, Samuel
Life Span: (fl.1834–1849)
Nationality: England
Gender: Male
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Title: Eschscholtzia crocea
Taxon:
Eschscholzia Chamisso, Papaveraceae
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Medium: lithograph, hand-colored
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Published: Paxton's Mag. Bot. 3: opp. p. 49. 1837.
Printmaker: F. W. Smith
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Accession Number: 0450
Artist Name: Holden, Samuel
Life Span: (fl.1834–1849)
Nationality: England
Gender: Male
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Title: Ruellia lilacina
Taxon:
Ruellia Linnaeus, Acanthaceae
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Medium: lithograph, hand-colored
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Published: Paxton's Mag. Bot. 12: opp. p. 243. 1846.
Printmaker: Samuel Holden
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Accession Number: 0451
Artist Name: Holden, Samuel
Life Span: (fl.1834–1849)
Nationality: England
Gender: Male
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Title: Corrae's (Gaines') seedling var. 1. Picta 2. Rubescens 3. Delicata 4. Ferruginea 5. Pallida
Taxon:
Fuchsia, Onagraceae
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Medium: lithograph, hand-colored
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Accession Number: 0452
Artist Name: Holden, Samuel
Life Span: (fl.1834–1849)
Nationality: England
Gender: Male
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Title: Fuchsia Queen Victoria (Smith's)
Taxon:
Fuchsia Linnaeus, Onagraceae
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Medium: lithograph, hand-colored
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Published: Paxton's Mag. Botany. 11: opp. p. 73. 1844.
Printmaker: Samuel Holden
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Accession Number: 0453
Artist Name: Holden, Samuel
Life Span: (fl.1834–1849)
Nationality: England
Gender: Male
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Title: Fuchsia macrantha
Taxon:
Fuchsia Linnaeus, Onagraceae
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Medium: lithograph, hand-colored
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Published: Paxton's Mag. Bot. 13: opp. p. 97. 1847.
Printmaker: Samuel Holden
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Accession Number: 0454
Artist Name: Holden, Samuel
Life Span: (fl.1834–1849)
Nationality: England
Gender: Male
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Title: Martynia lutea
Taxon:
Martynia Linnaeus, Martyniaceae
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Medium: lithograph, hand-colored
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Published: Paxton's Mag. Bot. 11: opp. p. 149. 1844.
Printmaker: Samuel Holden
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Accession Number: 0455
Artist Name: Holden, Samuel
Life Span: (fl.1834–1849)
Nationality: England
Gender: Male
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Title: Alpinia nutans
Taxon:
Alpinia Roxburgh, Zingiberaceae
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Medium: lithograph, hand-colored
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Published: Paxton's Mag. Bot. 13: opp p. 125. 1847.
Printmaker: Samuel Holden
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Accession Number: 0456
Artist Name: Holden, Samuel
Life Span: (fl.1834–1849)
Nationality: England
Gender: Male
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Title: Mirbelia floribunda
Taxon:
Mirbelia J. E. Smith, Fabaceae alt. Leguminosae
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Published: Paxton's Mag. Bot. 8: opp. p. 103. 1841.
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Accession Number: 0457
Artist Name: Holden, Samuel
Life Span: (fl.1834–1849)
Nationality: England
Gender: Male
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Title: Beaufortia splendens
Taxon:
Beaufortia R. Brown, Myrtaceae
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Medium: lithograph, hand-colored
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Published: Paxton's Mag. Bot. 13: opp. p. 145. 1847.
Printmaker: Samuel Holden
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Accession Number: 0458
Artist Name: Holden, Samuel
Life Span: (fl.1834–1849)
Nationality: England
Gender: Male
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Title: Barringtonia speciosa
Taxon:
Barringtonia J. R. Forster and J. G. A. Forster, Lecythidaceae
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Published: Paxton's Mag. Bot. 10: opp. p. 241. 1843.
Printmaker: Samuel Holden
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Accession Number: 0459
Artist Name: Hyld, (Lady) Hardinge
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Gender: Female
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Description: flowers in urn
Medium: watercolor
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 25 x 16
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Accession Number: 0460
Artist Name: Leighton, Clare
Life Span: (1901-1988)
Nationality: England and United States
Gender: Female
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Title: Crown imperial
Taxon:
Fritillaria, Liliaceae
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Medium: wood engraving
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 18.5 x 9.5
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Edition: 7/30
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Signature: Clare Leighton (b.r.)
Published: Leighton, C. 1935. Four Hedges: A Gardener's Chronicle. London: Victor Gollancz. P. 27.
Printmaker: Clare Leighton
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HIBD Exhibitions: Contemporary Botanical Art and Illustration [1st International] (1964); Botany and History Entwined: Rachel Hunt's Legacy (2011)
HIBD Publications: Lawrence, G. H.M., comp. 1964. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Contemporary Botanical Art and Illustration [1st International]. Pittsburgh: Hunt Botanical Library.; 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. 16.
Accession Number: 0461
Artist Name: Mills
Life Span: (fl.ca.1837–1844)
Nationality: England
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Title: Erica lambertiana, Mr. Lambert's hybrid heath
Taxon:
Erica Linnaeus, Ericaceae
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Medium: engraving, hand-colored
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Dimensions (cm): 22 x 17.5
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Published: Maund, B. and J. S. Henslow. 1836–1842. The Botanist. 5 vols. London: R. Groombridge. V. 4. Pl. 163.
Printmaker: Nevitt
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Accession Number: 0462
Artist Name: Morris (Miss)
Life Span: (fl.early 1800s)
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Gender: Female
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Title: Dillwynia glycinifolia
Taxon:
Dillwynia J. E. Smith, Fabaceae alt. Leguminosae
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Medium: engraving, hand-colored
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Dimensions (cm): 22.5 x 16
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Date of Execution: ca. 1837
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Published: Paxton's Mag. Bot. 4: opp. p. 99. 1838.
Printmaker: Smith
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Accession Number: 0463
Artist Name: Smith, Edwin Dalton
Life Span: 1800–1883?
Nationality: England
Gender: Male
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Title: Lee's Carmine rose, Rosa centifolia var. carminata
Taxon:
Rosa Linnaeus, Rosaceae
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Medium: engraving, hand-colored
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 25 x 15.5
Image Size: 20 x 12.5
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Published: Sweet, R. 1827–1832. The Florist's Guide, and Cultivator's Directory. 2 vols. London: J. Ridgway. Vol. 2. Pl. 198.
Printmaker: Watts, S.
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Accession Number: 0464
Artist Name: Smith, Edwin Dalton
Life Span: 1800–1883?
Nationality: England
Gender: Male
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Title: Liatris sphaeroidea, Globular-cupped liatris
Taxon:
Liatris J. Gaertner ex Schreber, Asteraceae alt. Compositae
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Medium: engraving, hand-colored
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Dimensions (cm): 25 x 15
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Published: Sweet, R. 1827–1832. The Florist's Guide, and Cultivator's Directory. 2 vols. London: J. Ridgway. Vol. 1. Pl. 87.
Printmaker: Bailey, A.
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Accession Number: 0465
Artist Name: Smith, Frederick William
Life Span: (1797-1835)
Nationality: England
Gender: Male
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Title: Gesneria cooperi (Mr. Cooper's gesneria)
Taxon:
Sinningia cooperi (Paxton) Wiehler., Gesneriaceae
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Dimensions (cm): 23 x 13.5
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Published: Paxton's Mag. Bot. 1: pl. 224. 1834.
Printmaker: Smith, Frederick
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Accession Number: 0466
Artist Name: Smith, Frederick William
Life Span: (1797-1835)
Nationality: England
Gender: Male
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Title: Lobelia fulgens (var. propinqua)
Taxon:
Lobelia Linnaeus, Campanulaceae
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Published: Paxton's Mag. Bot. 2: pl. 52. 1836.
Printmaker: Smith, Frederick
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Accession Number: 0467
Artist Name: Stroobant, Louis-Constantin
Life Span: 1814–1872
Nationality: Belgium
Gender: Male
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Title: Fuchsia splendens Zucc.
Taxon:
Fuchsia Linnaeus, Onagraceae
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Published: Fl. Serres Jard. Eur. 5: p. 458. 1849.
Printmaker: Severeyns, Stroobant or de Pannemaeker
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Accession Number: 0468
Artist Name: Withers, Augusta Innes Baker
Life Span: 1792–1869
Nationality: England
Gender: Female
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Title: Epidendrum papillosum, Warty-fruited Epidendrum
Taxon:
Epidendrum Linnaeus, Orchidaceae
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Dimensions (cm): 23.5 x 14
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Published: Bot. Mag. 12: pl. 3631. 1839.
Printmaker: Swan
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Accession Number: 0469
Artist Name: Dietzsch, Barbara Regina [or Diezschin or Dietzschin] (attr. to)
Life Span: (1706-1783)
Nationality: Germany
Gender: Female
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Title:
Taxon:
Allium Linnaeus, Liliaceae
Description: with undetermined dragonfly (Odonata: Libellulidae)(t.r.), a white moth (The Magpie, Abraxas grossulariata (Linnaeus, 1758)) (l.), and a small blue butterfly (The Common Blue, Polyommatus (Polyommatus) icarus (Rottemburg, 1775) (b.r.)
Medium: gouache
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 28.6 x 20.5
Image Size: 29.5 x 21.5 mat opening
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Signature: Verso (b.r.) : B. R. Diezschin
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Notes: Believed by Dr. Heidrun Ludwig of Darmstadt to be by Barbara Regina Dietzsch's brother Johann Siegmund Dietzsch (1707-1779). See "Bulletin Letters." Bull. Hunt Inst. Bot. Doc. 12(2): 10. 2000.
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