Botanical illustrations by Jacob Bigelow, 1813-1819 (inclusive).

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Botanical illustrations by Jacob Bigelow, 1813-1819 (inclusive).

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The Bigelow papers consist of two main types of material: botanical illustrations and herbarium specimens. The botanical illustrations mostly pertain to Bigelow's American medical botany and include pen and pencil drawings, colored drawings and handcolored proofs (roughly 40 sheets of drawings). The herbarium specimens consist of about 17 different plants with identifying labels. They seem to have been collected on a European grand tour; a few ara dated March 1839.

ca. 40 drawings.

Harvard University, Botany Libraries

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Harvard University, Botany Libraries

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Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879

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Physician and botanist of Boston, Mass. From the description of Jacob Bigelow letter, 1822-1833, [Boston]. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 34847536 Jacob Bigelow (Harvard University, A.B. 1806 and University of Pennsylvania, M.D. 1810) taught at Harvard Medical School from 1815-1855. With Dr. Francis Boott he began work on a flora of New England but this project was given up. From 1817-1820 he published American medical botany for which he drew many of the plates and ...