Catalogue of the Botanical Art Collection at the Hunt Institute
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Accession Number: 1707
Artist Name: Unknown
Life Span: (ca.1200)
Nationality: Iraq
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Vitis Linnaeus, Vitaceae
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Medium: watercolor
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Dimensions (cm): 29.5 x 20
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Notes: Page of manuscript of Dioscorides, Materia medica, numbered 94 and 95, with text only on page 95. See also accession nos. 1708, 1709 and 5682.
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Accession Number: 1708
Artist Name: Unknown
Life Span: (ca.1200)
Nationality: Iraq
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Convolvulus Linnaeus, Convolvulaceae; Dicotyledoneae
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Notes: Page of manuscript of Dioscorides, Materia medica, numbered 172 and 173, with drawings and text on both sides of page. Regarding the image on page 173, the Gunther translation of Dioscorides' work lists Skammonia (Greek) as Convolvulus farinosus, Convolvulus Scannomia. The Latin name used in middle ages was apparently Scamonia. See also accession nos. 1707, 1709 and 5682.
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Accession Number: 1709
Artist Name: Unknown
Life Span: (ca. 1200)
Nationality: Iraq
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Dicotyledoneae
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Notes: Page of manuscript of Dioscorides, Materia medica, numbered 6 and 7, with drawings and text on both sides of page. See also accession nos. 1707, 1708 and 5682.
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Accession Number: 1729
Artist Name: Pillement, Jean-Baptiste
Life Span: (1728-1808)
Nationality: France
Gender: Male
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Medium: engraving, hand-colored
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Dimensions (cm): 45.5 x 30.5
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Published: Pillement, J.-B. ca.1750. Différentes Fleurs du Japon aux Manufactures d'Etoffes. Paris: Chez Levier.
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Accession Number: 1730
Artist Name: Pillement, Jean-Baptiste
Life Span: (1728-1808)
Nationality: France
Gender: Male
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Published: Pillement, J.-B. ca.1750. Différentes Fleurs du Japon aux Manufactures d'Etoffes. Paris: Chez Levier.
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Accession Number: 1731
Artist Name: Pillement, Jean-Baptiste
Life Span: (1728-1808)
Nationality: France
Gender: Male
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Published: Pillement, J.-B. ca.1750. Différentes Fleurs du Japon aux Manufactures d'Etoffes. Paris: Chez Levier.
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Accession Number: 1732
Artist Name: Pillement, Jean-Baptiste
Life Span: (1728-1808)
Nationality: France
Gender: Male
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Published: Pillement, J.-B. ca.1750. Différentes Fleurs du Japon aux Manufactures d'Etoffes. Paris: Chez Levier.
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Accession Number: 1733
Artist Name: Pillement, Jean-Baptiste
Life Span: (1728-1808)
Nationality: France
Gender: Male
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Published: Pillement, J.-B. ca.1750. Différentes Fleurs du Japon aux Manufactures d'Etoffes. Paris: Chez Levier.
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Accession Number: 1736
Artist Name: Monnoyer, Jean-Baptiste
Life Span: (1636-1699)
Nationality: France
Gender: Male
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Description: title page with garland of flowers
Medium: engraving, hand-colored
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Dimensions (cm): 36 x 27.5
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Published: Monnoyer, J.-B. ca.1670–1680. Liure de Toutes Sortes de Fleurs d'apres Nature. Paris: de Poilly. Title page.
Printmaker: Jean Vauquer (fl.ca.1660–1690)
Notes: Inscribed: Liure de Toutes Sortes de Fleurs d'apres Nature. A Paris ruë St. Jacques chez N. Poilly a la belle Image.
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Accession Number: 1747
Artist Name: Cosway, Richard A.
Life Span: (1740-1801)
Nationality: England
Gender: Male
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Title: Flora dispensing her favours on the earth
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Description: Flora
Medium: aquatint, stipple engraving, hand-finished
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 57.5 x 46
Image Size: 48.6 x 38.6
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Published: Thornton, R. J. 1799–1807. New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus… and the Temple of Flora, or Garden of Nature. 3 parts. London: for the author. Part. 3.
Printmaker: Woolnoth, T.
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: 1761
Artist Name: Larmessin, Nicolas De
Life Span: (fl.ca.1700)
Nationality: France
Gender: Male
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Title: Habit de Jardinier
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Description: gardener's costume
Medium: engraving, hand-colored
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 29 x 19.5
Image Size: 28 x 18.8
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Date of Execution: ca.1690
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Printmaker: Valck, G.
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Accession Number: 1774
Artist Name: Woudt, Jan Cornelisz
Life Span: (1570-1615)
Nationality: Netherlands
Gender: Male
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Title: Horti publici Academiae Lugduno - Batavae cum Areolis et pulvillis Vera Delineatio
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Description: Leiden Botanic Garden view
Medium: engraving
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Dimensions (cm): 32.2 x 40
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Date of Execution: 1610
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Published: Cloucq, A. 1610. Four Views of the University of Leiden (Vier Gezichten van de Universiteit van Leiden). Leiden: Cloucq.
Printmaker: Willem van Swanenburg (Netherlands, 1580–1612)
Notes: four prints in publication
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Accession Number: 1777
Artist Name: Fouquiéres, Jacques (after, see notes]
Life Span: (ca. 1580-1659)
Nationality: France
Gender: Male
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Title: Scenographia Hortus Palatinus A Frederico V. Electore Palatino Heidelbergae Exstructus. 1620
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Description: garden view
Medium: etching
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Dimensions (cm): 34 x 49.8 PM
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Date of Execution: 1620
Place of Execution: Amsterdam
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Printmaker: Wenceslaus Hollar (1607–1677)
Notes: Second state of etching for Frederik de Wit (1629/30–1706), Theatrum præcipuarum totius Europæ urbium tam ichnographice quam conspicue delineatarum (after 1694) from the plate etched by Wenceslaus Hollar (1607–1677) for Jan Jansson (1588–1664), Urbium totius Germaniae svperioris illustriorum clariorumque tabulae antiquae & novae accuratissimè elaboratae?...?(1657). The Hollar etching is after an etching by Johann Theodor de Bry (1561–1623) after a drawing by Matthaüs Merian (1593–1650) for Salomon de Caus (1576–1626), Hortus Palatinus (1620), after an oil painting by Jacques Fouquiéres (France, ca.1580–1659), before 1620, HI Art accession no. 1777.
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Accession Number: 1836
Artist Name: Knyff, Leonard
Life Span: 1650-1721
Nationality: Netherlands
Gender: Male
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Title: Wimple in the County of Cambridge …
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Description: garden view
Medium: engraving with etching
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Dimensions (cm): 42 x 53.5
Image Size: 35 x 48.5
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Published: Mortier, D. 1707. Brittannia Illustrata. London: the author. [See notes field for reference to information on subsequent editions].
Printmaker: Kip, Jan (1652/3–1722)
Notes: for information on the series complicated history see: Bernard Adams, London Illustrated 1604-1850: a Survey and Index of Topographical Books and their Plates (London, Library Association, 1983)
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Accession Number: 1843
Artist Name: Brooke, E. Adveno
Life Span: (fl.1853-1864)
Nationality: England
Gender: Male
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Title: The Alhambra garden, Elvaston castle, the seat of the Right Honble the Earl of Harrington
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Description: garden
Medium: chromolithograph
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Dimensions (cm): 37.5 x 54
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Published: Brooke, E. A. 1857. The Gardens of England. London: the author.
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Accession Number: 1855
Artist Name: Unknown
Life Span: (fl.ca.1741)
Nationality: Germany
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Description: gardener's diploma
Medium: ink, watercolor
Support: vellum
Dimensions (cm): 49.5 x 67.5
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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.
Accession Number: 1860
Artist Name: Unknown
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Title: La Pompadour
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Dicotyledoneae
Description: with butterfly
Medium: engraving, hand-colored
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Dimensions (cm): 42.5 x 28
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Notes: ''Cent. 2'' (t.l.), ''Pl. XXX'' (t.r.)
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Accession Number: 1861
Artist Name: Unknown
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Title: La Benoite des Alpes
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Capparidaceae ?; Rosaceae ?
Description: with butterfly
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Notes: ''Cent. 2'' (t.l.), ''Pl. LIX'' (t.r.)
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Accession Number: 1862
Artist Name: Unknown
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Syringa Linnaeus, Oleaceae
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Accession Number: 1864
Artist Name: Rawnsley Violet (Mrs. Noel)
Life Span: (active 1940s)
Nationality: England
Gender: Female
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Title: Scurvy plant, Wild geranium
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Geranium, Geraniaceae
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Medium: ink
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Dimensions (cm): 15 x 10
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Signature: Violet Rawnsley (b.r.)
Published: for Yarb lore in the Kentucky mountains. Frontier Nursing Service Quart. Bull. 39(3): 9. 1964. Fig. 9.
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Accession Number: 1865
Artist Name: Rawnsley Violet (Mrs. Noel)
Life Span: (active 1940s)
Nationality: England
Gender: Female
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Title: Blood root, Pucoon
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Sanguinaria canadensis L., Papaveraceae
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Dimensions (cm): 20 x 12.5
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Date of Execution: 1941
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Signature: Violet Rawnsley (b.l.)
Published: for Yarb lore in the Kentucky mountains. Frontier Nursing Service Quart. Bull. 39(3): 9. 1964. Fig. 10.
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Accession Number: 1866
Artist Name: Rawnsley Violet (Mrs. Noel)
Life Span: (fl.1940s)
Nationality: England
Gender: Female
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Title: Heart leaf
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Asarum Linnaeus, Aristolochiaceae
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Dimensions (cm): 20 x 12.5
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Date of Execution: 1941
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Signature: Violet Rawnsley (b.r.)
Published: Breckinridge, M., ed. 1964. Yarb lore in the Kentucky mountains. Frontier Nursing Service Quart. Bull. 39(3): 3–27. [Winter.] [P. 5. Fig. 1.]
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Accession Number: 1867
Artist Name: Rawnsley Violet (Mrs. Noel)
Life Span: (fl.1940s)
Nationality: England
Gender: Female
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Title: Wild sarsaparilla
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Smilax Linnaeus, Liliaceae
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Dimensions (cm): 20 x 12.5
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Date of Execution: 1941
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Signature: Violet Rawnsley (b.r.)
Published: Breckinridge, M., ed. 1964. Yarb lore in the Kentucky mountains. Frontier Nursing Service Quart. Bull. 39(3): 3–27. [Winter.] [P. 10. Fig. 12.]
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Accession Number: 1868
Artist Name: Rawnsley Violet (Mrs. Noel)
Life Span: (fl.1940s)
Nationality: England
Gender: Female
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Title: Ginseng
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Panax Linnaeus, Araliaceae
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Dimensions (cm): 20 x 12.5
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Date of Execution: 1941
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Signature: Violet Rawnsley (b.r.)
Published: Breckinridge, M., ed. 1964. Yarb lore in the Kentucky mountains. Frontier Nursing Service Quart. Bull. 39(3): 3–27. [Winter.] [P. 14. Fig. 19.]
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Accession Number: 1869
Artist Name: Rawnsley Violet (Mrs. Noel)
Life Span: (fl.1940s)
Nationality: England
Gender: Female
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Title: May apple
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Podophyllum peltatum Linnaeus, Berberidaceae
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Date of Execution: 1941
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Signature: Violet Rawnsley (b.l.)
Published: Breckinridge, M., ed. 1964. Yarb lore in the Kentucky mountains. Frontier Nursing Service Quart. Bull. 39(3): 3–27. [Winter.] [P. 15. Fig. 21.]
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