About
Title
Album of Alexander Marshal Insect Watercolors
Description
Manuscript volume bound in red leather with gold lettering containing watercolor illustrations primarily of butterflies, moths, and other insects. The illustrations, created by Alexander Marshal, G. D. Ehret and others are drawn on scraps of paper or vellum that may have been cut from a sketch book or manuscript. In some cases, the illustrations were drawn on the blank side of a letterpress text.
Creator
Marshal, Alexander
Time Period Covered
circa 1658-mid 18th century
Contributors
Ehret, Georg Dionysius, 1708-1770
Source
ANSP-Coll-0941, Box 1
Notes
Cataloging and digitization made possible by The Getty Grant Program.
Relation
Album of Alexander Marshal Insect Watercolors
Contributing Institution
Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
Sponsorship
This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education.
