Paintings of exotic plants & insects [art original].
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Lewis Walpole Library > Paintings of exotic plants & insects [art original].
16832561
Description
- Title
- Paintings of exotic plants & insects [art original].
- Alternative Title
- Paintings of exotic plants and insects
- Creator
- Robins, Thomas, 1748-1806, artist
- Contributor
- Collection Highlights: Prints, Drawings, and Illustrated Books The Lewis Walpole Library, Farmington, CT.) (May-October 2010 :
- Published / Created
- [between 1783 and 1788?]
- Publication Place
- England and Jamaica?
- Abstract
-
A collection of 74 from a total of 139 drawings of plants with insects by Thomas Robins, all described in a 19-page catalogue in the artist's hand. The drawings are numbered in pencil [by a later owner?] on the verso, and in a few instances on the recto. For the catalogue Robins created five columns on each page in which he entered for each drawing the Linnaean name, the English name, the class, and the order as well as a list of the insects that appear in the image
- Description
-
Title from accompanying catalogue in artist's hand.
Artist identified and suggested dates for the collection from Andrew Edmunds of London. See: The flower paintings of Thomas Robins the Younger / edited by John Anthony Robins. Poole Dorset : Published by John Robins, [1999], p. 86.
Accompanied by a catalogue in the hand of the artist, listing 39 drawings numbered and identified on 19 unnumbered pages followed by 13 blank leaves. The catalogue with marble wrappers is titled on cover: A catalogue of paintings of exotic plants & insects.
The Lewis Walpole Library holds 64 of the 139 drawings; the library lacks nos. 5, 7-9, 11, 13-14, 17, 19, 25-27, 29-30, 33-36, 38-40, 42-45, 47, 49-50, 55-56, 58-61, 64-65, 67, 69-70, 72, 74-75, 78-80, 82, 84, 86, 88-92, 95, 97-98, 110, 115, 118-120, 124, 126, 128, and 134.
Housed in seven solander boxes. The catalogue is housed in Box 1. - Provenance
- Purchased by Annie Burr Lewis from Hamill & Barker, 1937. Formerly owned by Walter T. Spencer, London.
- Extent
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74 drawings in 1 album : binding 58 x 46 cm
1 v. ([19]) pages ; 37 cm - Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 R558 783 (Oversize)
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Pictorial works
Watercolors
Albums (books) - Material
- watercolor ;
- Resource Type
- still image and text
- Subject (Topic)
-
Insects
Flowers
Botanical illustrations - Subjects
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Insects > Pictorial works
Flowers > Pictorial works
Insects
Botanical illustrations
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Thomas Robins, Paintings of Exotic Plants & Insects. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 10400098
- Object ID (OID)
- 16832561
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