The Naturalists Companion containing drawings with suitable descriptions of a vast variety of Quadru...
The Naturalists Companion containing drawings with suitable descriptions of a vast variety of Quadru...
The Naturalists Companion containing drawings with suitable descriptions of a vast variety of Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Serpent and Insects; & accurately copied either from Living Animals or from the stuffed Specimens in the Museums of the College and Dublin Society, to which is added drawings of several antiquities, natural productions &c containd in those Museums -- illustrated manuscript by Kenelm Henry Digby
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Author / Creator
Date
1812-1816. It suggested that the volume dates between the arrival of the stuffed giraffe at the Trinity College Dublin Museum in late 1812, and October 1814 when Digby was admitted into Trintiy College Cambridge: see Rachel Hand "A number of highly interesting objects: the Cook-Voyage collections of Trinity College Dublin" in Jeremy Coote ed., "Cook-Voyage Collections of 'Artificial Curiousities' in Britian and Ireland 1771-2015" (MEG Occasional Papers no.5), Museum Ethnographers Group, Oxford, 2015, p.180. However the Dictionary of National Biography suggests he moved to Cambridge in 1816.
Call Numbers
SAFE/PXE 869
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Watercolours
Physical Description
Contents
440 watercolours (in 1 album of 544 pages, including manuscript text) - 39.6 x 25.2 x 5.4 cm
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Artist died before 1955
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Physical Access Conditions
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Issue Copy
Digitised
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
Following is a list of the illustrations of the album, which closely reflects its contents. Digby also provides an alphabetical index in the front of the album.
Frontispiece: [Untitled - Peaceable Kingdom - landscape with birds and animals]
p. 1 -- A Japanese Idol
p. 1 -- An antient Helmet
p. 2 -- Three antique Grecian Vases
p. 2 --...
Alternative Titles
Full title
The Naturalists Companion containing drawings with suitable descriptions of a vast variety of Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Serpent and Insects; & accurately copied either from Living Animals or from the stuffed Specimens in the Museums of the College and Dublin Society, to which is added drawings of several antiquities, natural productions &c contai...
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Digital order no:Album ID : 971124...
Signature / Inscriptions
Embossed on spine Digbys Naturalists Companion
Conservation note
Contemporary full calf covers, re-backed.
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased November 2001
Exhibited in
- National treasures from Australia's great libraries
Council of Australian State Libraries (1 December, 2005 - 31 December, 2006)
Administrative / Biographical history
Kenelm Henry Digby was born in Ireland in 1800 to a prominent Protestant family, and died in London in 1880, his home for most of his later life. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took a B.A. in 1819. At Cambridge he converted to Catholicism, and devoted the rest of his life to literature and writing, with a particular interest in Ca...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
SAFE/PXE 869
Record Identifier
nM7lWAVY
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nM7lWAVY
Other Identifiers
Reference code
414201
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