From a Summer Meadow (3.24613)
Date: 1945Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of various meadow leaves, seeds, and flowers with descriptive text next to each image, created to accompany "Let's Look At A Meadow" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information.
Header: From A Summer Meadow
Illustrations are divided into three sections, from top to bottom:
Section 1 - LEAVES with protection (depicted from left to right)
- from a too thristy sun
- Queen Anne's lace - reduced surface
- Prickly lettuce - compass habit
- Milkweed - milky juice
- Mullein (overlapped in next section) - felty covering
- from hungry cattle
- Mullein (overlapped in previous section) - felty covering
- Yarrow - bitter taste
- Thistle - spines
- by air
- Milkweed
- Fleabane
- Goatsbeard
- Thistle
- Dandelion
- by fur
- Barbs of grasses (enlarged)
- Spanish needle
- Cocklebur
- Burdock
- Aster
- Fleabane
- Brown-eyed susan
- Chicory
- Sneezeweed
Extent: 1 sheet
Carolina parrot = [graphic] Psittacus carolinensis Linn. / drawn from nature by J.J. Audubon chromolithy. by J. Bien. (3.24952)
Date: 1860Creator: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Type: Print
Extent: 1 print : chromolithograph 68 x 100 cm.
Carolina parrot = Psitacus carolinensis / drawn from nature & published by John J. Audubon engraved, printed & coloured by R. Havell & Son. (3.29158)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 print : commercial reproduction, color 39 x 30 cm.