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Sketching splendor : american natural history, 1750-1850.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks N7650 .M35 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Majeski, Anna
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 107 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, PA : American Philosophical Society, 2024.
- Summary:
- "Sketching Splendor examines the work of three American naturalists, William Bartram, Titian Ramsay Peale, and John James Audubon whose work exemplifies innovation and injustice in equal measure. The exhibition draws on the American Philosophical Society’s rich holdings as well as select loans, with many objects exhibited together for the first time." Penn Press
- Local Notes:
- HSP Credit Line: "Draft Manuscript of the Travels," William Bartram [page 57]. Bartram Family Papers [coll. 36].
- ISBN:
- 1606180401
- 9781606180402
- OCLC:
- 1443716401
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