Scope and Contents
This collection consists of six watercolors by Hunnewell painted from four specimens she collected in the Pyrenees in France. Four paintings have printed specimen labels from the attached. The printed labels originally read “F.W. Hunnewell, 2nd.” The “F.W.” has been crossed out and replaced with “M.P.”
Dates
- Creation: 1900
Creator
- Hunnewell, Mary P. (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is available by appointment for research. Researchers must register and provide valid photo identification. Please contact botref@oeb.harvard.edu for additional information.
Extent
0.1 linear feet (6 leaves of paintings)Biographical Note
Mary Peele Hunnewell was born on November 17, 1875, in Wellesley, Massachusetts, to Walter and Jane Appleton Peele Hunnewell. She was the younger sister of amateur botanist Francis Welles Hunnewell. She married Sidney M. Williams in 1908 and lived in Wellesley her entire life. She died in 1920.
Sources
Vital Statistic Records, Massachusetts Archives.
Fiske JE. 1917. History of the Town of Wellesley, Massachusetts. Boston (MA): The Pilgrim Press.
Physical Location
HERBARIUM CASE/Stacks #3
Provenance
The provenance of this collection is unknown.
Digitization note
Digitized by Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group as part of the Original Botanical Illustrations in the Combined Collections of the Botany Libraries, 2018.
Creator
- Hunnewell, Mary P. (Person)
- Title
- Hunnewell, Mary P. Hunnewell herbarium watercolors, 1900: A Guide.
- Status
- completed
- Author
- Archives, Gray Herbarium, Harvard University Herbaria.
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- gra00051
Repository Details
Part of the Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University Repository
The Harvard University Herbaria houses five research libraries that are managed collectively as the Botany Libraries. The Gray Herbarium Library specializes in the identification and classification of New World plants with emphasis on North American plants. The Archives of the Gray Herbarium houses unique resources including personal papers, institutional records, field notes and plant lists, expedition records, photographs, original artwork, and objects from faculty, curators, staff, and affiliates of the Gray Herbarium.
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