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Lily Wells water color illustrations of North American plants
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Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206
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Lily Wells, born in Newport, Rhode Island, was a member of the Naturalists Field Club of the University of Pennsylvania. She painted the various flora of the northeastern and mid-Atlantic United States.
This collection comprises seven sketchbooks of botanical watercolors; plus one bound volume of seven individual watercolor plates.
In the first seven volumes of sketchbooks, each plant is identified. Location and habitat are described, and each painting is dated. Locations of plants illustrated include Philadelphia and suburbs, Shawnee and Mt. Pocono, Pennsylvania; Camden, Williamstown, Atco, Absecon, Asbury Park, and Gloucester County, New Jersey; Westkill, Echo Notch, and Lebanon Springs, New York; West Quincy, West Roxbury, Milton, and Berkshire County, Massachusetts; Middletown, Rhode Island; Mt. Kearsarge and Shelburne, New Hampshire; and Kittery, Maine.
Volume 8 includes seven watercolors of flowering plants of the northeastern United States painted by Lily Wells, a member of the Naturalists Field Club of the University of Pennsylvania. This volume also has an introduction by John W. Harshberger dated June 14, 1928 and holds a wedding announcement for Lily Wells and John Muirhead Macfarlane, dated 1929.
Volume 8 is a gift of the Naturalists Field Club, 1928. The remaining sketchbooks were acquired in 2001.
Binding: cloth; sketchbooks have damaged spines, some covers detached.
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- University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
- Finding Aid Author
- Molly B. Hutt
- Finding Aid Date
- 2015 April 14
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This collection is open for research use.
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