BIB_ID
225142
Accession number
MA 6078
Creator
Witherby, Barbara.
Display Date
ca. 1820.
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman.
Description
1 item (ca. 65 p.), bound : ill. ; 18.3 cm
Notes
Date and possible location of writing and decoration from pencilled note on the verso of the front flyleaf.
Provenance
Mary R. Witherby, 1879; bookplate of Julia Wightman.
Summary
Manuscript contains 61 full-page hand colored botanical illustrations, primarily of English flowers, on each recto. Each illustration is faced by a description of the specemin. Followed by a manuscript index (4 p.) and a drawing of a bird titled "He! strewed thy path with flowers / To cheer thee on thy way."
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (20.8 cm)
Catalog link
Department