Drawings/prints associated with USPRR reports & photographs/archival material
Contributors: Schott, Arthur, 1814-1875
Published: 1825
Language: eng
Format: [graphic],
Number of pages: 39
Subjects: Plants; United States Pacific Railroad Expeditions and Surveys; Scientific expeditions; Discovery and exploration; Explorers; Pictorial works; Botanical illustration
Other titles: Pacific Railroad Reports Botanical art collection.; Connecting content : a collaboration to link field notes to specimens and published literature.
Description: 39 original drawings by Isaac Sprague, Arthur Schott, and others for United States Pacific Railroad and other reports authored by John Torrey. Drawings are pencil, pen & ink, pencil & ink, or pencil & watercolor on paper. Many are undated, those that have dates range from 1825-1859. The collection is from the library of Judge Addison Brown, and was presented to NYBG by Mrs. Brown on May 15, 1915.
Notes: This collection is open for research with permission from Mertz Library staff.

Botanical Art Collection, LuEsther T. Mertz Library, The New York Botanical Garden.

Botanical Art Collection, Collection 70, Pacific Railroad Reports.

In English.

Contents list available from the LuEsther T. Mertz Library, New York Botanical Garden.
Table of contents: title: Amblirion pudicum / Arthur Schott; title: Asclepias macrophylla; title: Batis maritima; title: Carex sartwellii; title: Carpenteria californica; title: Chaenactis achilleaefolia / Arthur Schott; title: Cowania stansburiana / Arthur Schott; title: Crepis acuminata / Arthur Schott; title: Eddya hispidissima / Isaac Sprague; title: Eriogonum lachnogynum / A.S. Ric...; title: Fremontia californica / A. Hochstein; title: Gayophytum / Isaac Sprague; title: Heuchera rubescens / Arthur Schott; title: Holacantha emoryi / Isaac Sprague; title: Hulsea nana; title: Hymenoclea salsola; title: Larrea mexicana / E.A. Hunt; title: Monothrix stansburiana / Arthur Schott; title: Nemopanthes canadensis; title: Nepenthes distillatoria; title: Opuntia rafinesque (2 sketches) / Paulus Roetter; title: Opuntia vulgaris (2 sketches); title: Paulus Roetter; title: Phaca mollissima / Arthur Schott; title: Ptilocalyx gregii / Isaac Sprague; title: Salviastrum texanum / Isaac Sprague; title: Sequoia gigantea / N.R. Moll...; title: Sequoia sempervirens / N.L. Moll...; title: Selenia dissecta / Isaac Sprague; title: Spirea dumosa / Arthur Schott; title: Stegnocarpus canescens / Isaac Sprague; title: Streptanthus crassicaulis (3 sketches) / Arthur Schott; title: Strombocarpa pubescens / E.A. Hunt; title: Stylocline gnaphaloides / Isaac Sprague; title: [2 unlabelled, unsigned drawings].