Collection, 1828-1867 (inclusive).

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Collection, 1828-1867 (inclusive).

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The collection's 976 scientific drawings consist of 518 watercolor and/or pencil drawings of fishes and miscellaneous vertebrates and invertebrates, together with the original color drawings ultimately adapted on stone by lithographer A. Sonrel (including Burkhardt's classic turtle series) for Agassiz's "Contributions," and 458 fish watercolors and/or pencil drawings from the Thayer Expedition, most drawn from life (Thayer fish drawings, ARC 209). Most of the scientific drawings include pencilled manuscript annotations, many by Louis Agassiz and Joao Martins da Silva Coutinho, an engineer and naturalist who joined the expedition upon its arrival in Brazil. Agassiz's anatomical observations illustrate his focus on species differentiation in his study of Brazilian fish distribution. The 60 non-scientific drawings include Brazil landscapes done during the Thayer Expedition as well as a sketchbook of street scenes and landscapes of Rome, Italy, produced in 1828 (Rome sketchbook, sAg 168.60.16). Also included are 5 portrait photographs--3 solo images of Burkhardt; 1 photograph with Burkhardt, Theodore Lyman and Alexander Agassiz; and 1 Thayer Expedition group portrait with Burkhardt, Coutinho, D. Bourget, Newton Dexter, Walter Hunnewell, William James and Stephen van Rensselaer Thayer (Portrait Collection)--and 1 daguerreotype featuring Burkhardt, Lyman and A. Agassiz in the same undated sitting as the previously mentioned photograph, in a slightly different pose (sAg 168.60.1).

1036 drawings, 5 photographs, 1 daguerreotype.

Harvard University, Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology

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Harvard University, Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology

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