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Harriet Elliot manuscript original drawings
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0049
Abstract
This bound volume of original graphite sketches, notes, and nature prints is attributed to Harriet Elliot (d. 1825), daughter of Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto. Minto House and the surrounding landscape in Roxburghshire, Scotland, are the subjects of this sketchbook, with contents dated between 1807-1808. The volume also includes copied verse and studies of geometry and perspective.
Dates:
1807-1808
Mary Wager Fisher Western floral sketchbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0061
Abstract
This sketchbook was created by American journalist and author Mary Wager Fisher (d. 1915) and includes full-color drawings and pencil sketches from the 1870s and 1880s. Most of the drawings depict plants observed around Seattle, Washington, but Fisher also included sketches of buildings, household objects, and people observed elsewhere.
Dates:
1871-1872, 1884-1885; Majority of material found in 1885