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A painted herbarium : the life and art of Emily Hitchcock Terry, 1838-1921 / Beatrice Scheer Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Beatrice S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Botanical artists--United States--Biography.
- Botanical artists.
- Botanists--United States--Biography.
- Botanists.
- Botanical illustration--Minnesota--History.
- Botanical illustration.
- Terry, Emily Hitchcock, 1838-1921.
- Terry, Emily Hitchcock.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1992.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Her story, however, stands alongside those of countless women throughout history whose contributions have yet to be recognized. The beautiful reproductions of her work in this volume give us our first view of Terry's painted herbarium.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; The Early Years (1838-1859); Years of Transition (1860-1870); The Minnesota Years (1872-1884); Epilogue; Publications of Emily Hitchcock Terry; Notes; American Flowers. Painted by Mrs. Emily Hitchcock Terry; Description of the Volume; Explanation of Plate Legends; The Minnesota Flora: Plates 1-46; Descriptive Catalogue of the Paintings; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-74) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-8467-7
- OCLC:
- 476093072
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