American flowers / painted by Mrs. Emily Hitchcock Terry ... and by her presented to the Department of Botany of Smith College, June 1913. [1884-1909]

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American flowers / painted by Mrs. Emily Hitchcock Terry ... and by her presented to the Department of Botany of Smith College, June 1913. [1884-1909]

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142 watercolors of American flowers painted by botanist Terry between 1850 and 1910. The paintings are on paper of various surface textures and colors and in various sizes. Each painting is mounted on tan-grey lightweight tagboard and have descriptive captions. The volume is bound in quarter-leather binding with yellow-brown bookcloth. Two additional watercolors laid in. The volume was presented to Smith College in June 1913. The watercolors were painted from nature in New England, Colorado, Minnesota, South Carolina and Florida.

[143] leaves : ill. ; 49 x 37 cm.

Smith College, Neilson Library

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Smith College, Neilson Library

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Terry, Emily Hitchcock, 1838-1921

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Terry was the youngest child of geologist Edward and Orra White Hitchcock. She was an 1859 graduate of Mount Holyoke College and studied art at The Cooper Union in New York City in 1865. Terry married the Rev. Cassius Terry in 1870, and they moved to Minnesota 1872. She lived there until her husband's death in 1881. From 1884 to 1909 she was head of Hubbard House at Smith College. From the description of American flowers / painted by Mrs. Emily Hitchcock Terry ... and by her presente...