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71. Add MS 5272

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Title:
Drawings of amphibians and reptiles by Eleazar Albin and others
Scope & Content:
Drawings of reptiles and amphibians executed in a variety of techniques, primarily watercolour, pencil, ink and chalk. The only exceptions are items 21 and 60, which are etchings. Various drawings bear inscriptions in English, some of which are abbreviated cross-references to James Petiver's Gaz...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (60 items)

72. Add MS 5280

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Title:
Watercolours of insects by Eleazar Albin and others
Scope & Content:
Watercolours of butterflies, moths, caterpillars and other insects by Eleazer Albin, many of which related to his publication A Natural History of English Insects (London, 1749). The drawings are executed on paper and, occasionally, on parchment, and all are pasted on the folios of the albums. A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 volume (302 items)

73. Add MS 5282

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Title:
"A book containing herbs, flowers, trees, either growing wild or cultivated in gardens in England..."
Scope & Content:
Watercolours of flowers, plants, fruits birds and insects made around 1684. The drawings are executed directly onto the folios of the manuscript, in all cases but one only on the recto. Foliation is original and visible in the upper right corner of the folios, inscribed in pen and brown ink. Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume (205 folios)

74. Add MS 5286

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Title:
Watercolours of plants that grow around the Cape of Good Hope
Scope & Content:
Watercolours of plants that grow around the Cape of Good Hope. The watercolours are executed on paper and pasted down on the folios of the album. Most drawings include an accompanying inscription in Latin: this is a cross-reference to James Petiver's Gazophylacii Naturae & Artis decas nonas ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Late 17th century - Early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (93 items)

75. Add MS 5287

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Title:
Drawings of plants from the library of Cardinal Dubois, mainly executed by Jean Joubert
Scope & Content:
Drawings of plants, mostly from Europe, attributed to the French artist Jean Joubert (1643-1707), who was employed as artist and miniaturist to King Louis XIV between 1685-1704, and specialised in drawings of plants and animals from the Jardin du Roi. The name 'Joubert' is inscribed on several d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume (118 items)

76. Add MS 5289

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Title:
‘Miscellaneous Drawings of various Plants, Flowers, and Fruits in Indian-Ink, and colours, by different hands’, from the collection of Sir Hans Sloane
Scope & Content:
Album of drawings of plants by miscellaneous hands and of differing origin and date. The first 99 drawings in this album are those of Philippine plants sent by the Jesuit Georg Joseph Kamel (1661-1706) to James Petiver (1665-1718), many of which were used as the basis for the engravings in Pet...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume

77. Add MS 5291

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Title:
Drawings of plants for Leonard Plukenet's works and drawings and prints from James Petiver's works
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises two sets of drawings, all of which are pasted on the folios of the manuscript. At the beginning of the volume, inscribed on f.iii, is the title 'Designs of Dr. Plukenet's [i.e. Leonard Plukenet] works'. On f. iv (now at the back of the volume) is the title 'Drawings belongin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume (437 items)

78. Add MS 5291/ 1

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Title:
Old covers of Add MS 5291
Scope & Content:
Old covers of Add MS 5291, measuring 285 x 445 mm.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
Old covers of Add MS 5291

79. Add MS 5292

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Title:
Drawings of Chinese Flowers, Plants, and Fruits, in colours, by a native artist, at Emuy; with their names in Chinese
Scope & Content:
The first of three volumes which contain watercolours of Chinese flowers, plants and fruits by an unknown Chinese artists from Xiamen, known to Europeans at the time as Emuy or Amoy. Drawings of costumes that were also contained in this volume, were transferred to the British Museum Department o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese, English, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1701
Extent:

1 volume

80. Add MS 5292-5294

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Add MS 5292-5294
Title:
Drawings of Chinese Flowers, Plants, and Fruits, in colours, by a native artist, at Emuy; with their names in Chinese
Scope & Content:
Three volumes of drawings of flowers, plants and fruits by unknown Chinese artists, commissioned by James Cuninghame [Cunningham].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese and English
Date Range:
c 1701
Extent:
3 volumes

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