Catalogue of the Botanical Art Collection at the Hunt Institute
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Accession Number: 2673.02
Artist Name: Johnston, Edith Farrington
Life Span: (1888–1974)
Nationality: United States
Gender: Female
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Title: The Mantis frightens the toad
Taxon:
Description: praying mantis and toad with fruiting vine
Medium: black conté crayon
Support: illustration board
Dimensions (cm): 51 x 38.2
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Date of Execution: 1937
Place of Execution: near Gladstone, N.J.
Signature: Edith F. Johnston (b.c.)
Published: Johnston, E. F. 1947. Strange Visitor. New York: Macmillan. Frontispiece opp. Title page
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Accession Number: 2673.03
Artist Name: Johnston, Edith Farrington
Life Span: (1888–1974)
Nationality: United States
Gender: Female
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Title: Top left: The Mantis prays; Top right: Nest on bayberry twig: Bottom: The Mantis drinks milk
Taxon: Myrica Linnaeus, Myricaceae
Description: praying mantis, nest and drinking milk
Medium: black conté crayon
Support: illustration board
Dimensions (cm): 50.7 x 38.1
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Date of Execution: 1937
Place of Execution: near Gladstone, N.J.
Signature: Edith F. Johnston (b.r.)
Published: Johnston, E. F. 1947. Strange Visitor. New York: Macmillan. Pp. 8, 48, 33.
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Accession Number: 2673.04
Artist Name: Johnston, Edith Farrington
Life Span: (1888–1974)
Nationality: United States
Gender: Female
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Title: The Mantis prepares to trap the Katydid
Taxon: Rosaceae?
Description: praying mantis, katydid and thorny vine
Medium: black conté crayon
Support: illustration board
Dimensions (cm): 50.7 x 38.2
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Date of Execution: 1937
Place of Execution: near Gladstone, N.J.
Signature: Edith F. Johnston (b.r.)
Published: Johnston, E. F. 1947. Strange Visitor. New York: Macmillan. P. 11.
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Accession Number: 2673.05
Artist Name: Johnston, Edith Farrington
Life Span: (1888–1974)
Nationality: United States
Gender: Female
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Title: The Mantis has her hands full
Taxon:
Description: praying mantis holding locust, in vines and flowers at base of tree
Medium: black conté crayon
Support: illustration board
Dimensions (cm): 50.8 x 38
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Date of Execution: 1937
Place of Execution: near Gladstone, N.J.
Signature: Edith F. Johnston (b.r.)
Published: Johnston, E. F. 1947. Strange Visitor. New York: Macmillan. P. 16.
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Accession Number: 2673.06
Artist Name: Johnston, Edith Farrington
Life Span: (1888–1974)
Nationality: United States
Gender: Female
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Title: The Mantis washes her face and hands
Taxon: Lilium Linnaeus, Liliaceae; Rosaceae
Description: praying mantis amidst lilies and thorny vine
Medium: black conté crayon
Support: paper mounted on illustration board
Dimensions (cm): 50.7 x 38.2
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Date of Execution: 1937
Place of Execution: near Gladstone, N.J.
Signature: Edith F. Johnston (b.l.)
Published: Johnston, E. F. 1947. Strange Visitor. New York: Macmillan. P. 20.
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Notes: Also copy, accession no. 2673.18
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. P. 121.
Accession Number: 2673.07
Artist Name: Johnston, Edith Farrington
Life Span: (1888–1974)
Nationality: United States
Gender: Female
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Title: The Mantis eats her sister
Taxon: Rosaceae
Description: praying mantis eating another mantis amidst abstracted thorny vine
Medium: black conté crayon
Support: paper mounted on illustration board
Dimensions (cm): 50.8 x 38.2
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Date of Execution: 1937
Place of Execution: near Gladstone, N.J.
Signature: Edith F. Johnston (b.c.)
Published: Johnston, E. F. 1947. Strange Visitor. New York: Macmillan. P. 24.
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Accession Number: 2673.08
Artist Name: Johnston, Edith Farrington
Life Span: (1888–1974)
Nationality: United States
Gender: Female
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Title: The Mantis surprises the spider
Taxon: Dicotyledoneae
Description: praying mantis amidst flower with spider
Medium: black conté crayon
Support: illustration board
Dimensions (cm): 50.9 x 38.2
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Date of Execution: 1937
Place of Execution: near Gladstone, N.J.
Signature: Edith F. Johnston (b.c.)
Published: Johnston, E. F. 1947. Strange Visitor. New York: Macmillan. P. 28.
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Accession Number: 2673.09
Artist Name: Johnston, Edith Farrington
Life Span: (1888–1974)
Nationality: United States
Gender: Female
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Title: The Mantis attacks the Hickory Horn-devil
Taxon: Rosaceae
Description: praying mantis amidst thorny vine with insect
Medium: black conté crayon
Support: illustration board
Dimensions (cm): 50.7 x 37.9
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Date of Execution: 1937
Place of Execution: near Gladstone, N.J.
Signature: Edith F. Johnston (b.c.)
Published: Johnston, E. F. 1947. Strange Visitor. New York: Macmillan. P. 30.
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Accession Number: 2673.10
Artist Name: Johnston, Edith Farrington
Life Span: (1888–1974)
Nationality: United States
Gender: Female
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Title: The Mantis bites the butterfly
Taxon: Campsis Loureiro, Bignoniaceae
Description: praying mantis and butterfly amidst Campsis flowers
Medium: black conté crayon
Support: paper separated from illustration board
Dimensions (cm): 51 x 38.2
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Date of Execution: 1937
Place of Execution: near Gladstone, N.J.
Signature: Edith F. Johnston (b.c.)
Published: Johnston, E. F. 1947. Strange Visitor. New York: Macmillan. P. 41.
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Notes: also copy, accession no. 2673.18
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Accession Number: 2673.11
Artist Name: Johnston, Edith Farrington
Life Span: (1888–1974)
Nationality: United States
Gender: Female
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Title: The Mantis builds her nursery
Taxon: Labiatae alt. Lamiaceae
Description: praying mantis amidst Labiatae flowers
Medium: black conté crayon
Support: illustration board
Dimensions (cm): 50.9 x 38.2
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Date of Execution: 1937
Place of Execution: near Gladstone, N.J.
Signature: Edith F. Johnston (b.c.)
Published: Johnston, E. F. 1947. Strange Visitor. New York: Macmillan. P. 46.
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Accession Number: 2673.12
Artist Name: Johnston, Edith Farrington
Life Span: (1888–1974)
Nationality: United States
Gender: Female
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Title: The Mantis goes a-hunting
Taxon: Rubus Linnaeus, Rosaceae
Description: praying mantis amidst Rubus
Medium: black conté crayon
Support: illustration board mounted on illustration board
Dimensions (cm): 50.7 x 38.1
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Date of Execution: 1937
Place of Execution: near Gladstone, N.J.
Signature:
Published: Johnston, E. F. 1947. Strange Visitor. New York: Macmillan. P. 54.
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Accession Number: 2673.13
Artist Name: Johnston, Edith Farrington
Life Span: (1888–1974)
Nationality: United States
Gender: Female
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Title: The Mantis seizes the Grasshopper
Taxon:
Description: praying mantis amidst foliage
Medium: black conté crayon
Support: illustration board
Dimensions (cm): 51 x 38.2
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Date of Execution: 1937
Place of Execution: near Gladstone, N.J.
Signature: Edith F. Johnston (b.r.)
Published: Johnston, E. F. 1947. Strange Visitor. New York: Macmillan. P. 64.
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Accession Number: 2673.14
Artist Name: Johnston, Edith Farrington
Life Span: (1888–1974)
Nationality: United States
Gender: Female
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Title: Endpaper: The happy hunting ground
Taxon:
Description: praying mantis amidst foliage
Medium: black conté crayon
Support: illustration board
Dimensions (cm): 51.2 x 38.1
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Date of Execution: 1937
Place of Execution: near Gladstone, N.J.
Signature: Edith F. Johnston (b.r.)
Published: Johnston, E. F. 1947. Strange Visitor. New York: Macmillan. Endpapers.
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Accession Number: 2673.15
Artist Name: Johnston, Edith Farrington
Life Span: (1888–1974)
Nationality: United States
Gender: Female
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Title:
Taxon:
Description: Top: cut flowers in basket, trowel with praying mantis; bottom: wasp?
Medium: black conté crayon
Support: illustration board
Dimensions (cm): 50.2 x 38.2
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Date of Execution: 1937
Place of Execution: near Gladstone, N.J.
Signature: Edith F. Johnston (b.r.)
Published: Johnston, E. F. 1947. Strange Visitor. New York: Macmillan. Pp. 15, 72.
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Accession Number: 2673.16
Artist Name: Johnston, Edith Farrington
Life Span: (1888–1974)
Nationality: United States
Gender: Female
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Title:
Taxon:
Description: praying mantis head (front and side view), leg and eggs inside curled leaf on twig
Medium: black conté crayon
Support: illustration board
Dimensions (cm): 51.1 x 38.2
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Date of Execution: 1937
Place of Execution: near Gladstone, N.J.
Signature:
Published: Johnston, E. F. 1947. Strange Visitor. New York: Macmillan. Pp. 9, 12, 43, 52.
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Accession Number: 2673.17
Artist Name: Johnston, Edith Farrington
Life Span: (1888–1974)
Nationality: United States
Gender: Female
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Title:
Taxon:
Description: ants on plant; praying mantis on top of mushroom hunting an insect; ants on twig; egg case (whole and dissected longitudinally; Rosaceae branch
Medium: black conté crayon
Support: illustration board
Dimensions (cm): 37.9 x 50.8
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Date of Execution: 1937
Place of Execution: near Gladstone, N.J.
Signature:
Published: Johnston, E. F. 1947. Strange Visitor. New York: Macmillan. Pp. 26, 33, 62, 67.
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Accession Number: 2673.18
Artist Name: Johnston, Edith Farrington
Life Span: (1888–1974)
Nationality: United States
Gender: Female
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Title:
Taxon: Campsis Loureiro, Bignoniaceae; Rosaceae
Description: praying mantis biting butterfly on Campsis vine and praying mantis on Lilium and Rosaceae
Medium: black conté crayon
Support: paper that was separated from illustration board
Dimensions (cm): 38 x 49.5
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Date of Execution: 1937
Place of Execution: near Gladstone, N.J.
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Notes: copy of accession nos. 2673.06 and 2673.18 that were published in: Johnston, E. F. 1947. Strange Visitor. New York: Macmillan.
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Accession Number: 2674
Artist Name: Ferris, Roxana Judkins Stinchfield [design] Lucy, Richard [drawing] and Ferris, Gorden Floyd [drawing?]
Life Span: (1895-1979); (unknown);(1893-1958)
Nationality: United States
Gender: Female; Male; Male
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Title: ''Stirpium Ferrisi and Libri''
Taxon:
Description: plants in wreath
Medium: ink
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 38.5 x 30.5
Image Size: 28 x 24.5
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Notes: Drawing for bookplate. Also, bookplate
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Accession Number: 2676.001
Artist Name: Galleymore, Josiah
Life Span: 1801-1868
Nationality: England
Gender: Male
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Title: ''Jasminum grandiflora, Catalonian jasmine''
Taxon:
Jasminum Linnaeus, Oleaceae
Description:
Medium: watercolor
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 22 x 17.5
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Notes: Unpublished(?) manuscript by Josiah Galleymore, ''Icones plantarium et descriptione de speciarium.'' Vol. 1. 1820.
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Accession Number: 2676.002
Artist Name: Galleymore, Josiah
Life Span: 1801-1868
Nationality: England
Gender: Male
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Title: ''Templetonia retusa, Wedge-leav'd templetonia''
Taxon:
Templetonia R. Brown, Fabaceae alt. Leguminosae
Description:
Medium: watercolor
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 22 x 17.5
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Notes: Unpublished(?) manuscript by Josiah Galleymore, ''Icones plantarium et descriptione de speciarium.'' Vol. 1. 1820.
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Accession Number: 2676.003
Artist Name: Galleymore, Josiah
Life Span: 1801-1868
Nationality: England
Gender: Male
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Title: ''Erythrina carnea, Flesh-coloured, coral tree''
Taxon:
Erythrina Linnaeus, Fabaceae alt. Leguminosae
Description:
Medium: watercolor
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 22 x 17.5
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Notes: Unpublished(?) manuscript by Josiah Galleymore, ''Icones plantarium et descriptione de speciarium.'' Vol. 1. 1820.
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Accession Number: 2676.004
Artist Name: Galleymore, Josiah
Life Span: 1801-1868
Nationality: England
Gender: Male
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Title: ''Orchis longicornu, Flat-spurred orchis''
Taxon:
Orchis Linnaeus, Orchidaceae
Description:
Medium: watercolor
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 22 x 17.5
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Notes: Unpublished(?) manuscript by Josiah Galleymore, ''Icones plantarium et descriptione de speciarium.'' Vol. 1. 1820.
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Accession Number: 2676.005
Artist Name: Galleymore, Josiah
Life Span: 1801-1868
Nationality: England
Gender: Male
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Title: ''Rhododendron dauricum, Dark-leaved daurian rhododendron''
Taxon:
Rhododendron Linnaeus, Ericaceae
Description:
Medium: watercolor
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 22 x 17.5
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Notes: Unpublished(?) manuscript by Josiah Galleymore, ''Icones plantarium et descriptione de speciarium.'' Vol. 1. 1820.
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Accession Number: 2676.006
Artist Name: Galleymore, Josiah
Life Span: 1801-1868
Nationality: England
Gender: Male
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Title: ''Oxalis flava, Narrow leaved wood sorrel''
Taxon:
Oxalis Linnaeus, Oxalidaceae
Description:
Medium: watercolor
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 22 x 17.5
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Notes: Unpublished(?) manuscript by Josiah Galleymore, ''Icones plantarium et descriptione de speciarium.'' Vol. 1. 1820.
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Accession Number: 2676.007
Artist Name: Galleymore, Josiah
Life Span: 1801-1868
Nationality: England
Gender: Male
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Title: ''Pancratium zeylandicum, One-flowered pancratium''
Taxon:
Pancratium Linnaeus, Amaryllidaceae
Description:
Medium: watercolor
Support: paper
Dimensions (cm): 22 x 17.5
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Notes: Unpublished(?) manuscript by Josiah Galleymore, ''Icones plantarium et descriptione de speciarium.'' Vol. 1. 1820.
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