Syringa vulgaris (3.29527)
Date: 1750sCreator: Dietzsch, Barbara Regina, 1706-1783.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 painting : gouache (body color) 34 x 26 cm.
Syringa vulgaris (3.29528)
Date: 1750sCreator: Dietzsch, Barbara Regina, 1706-1783.
Type: Painting
Description:Single branch with white lilac inflorescence, six leaves, and stem cut above bottom of page. Brown butterfly with white edges to wings flying at top right corner.
Extent: 1 painting
The Stylish House: 1856 to 1881 (3.34279)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A version of an illustration from Reading the Landscape, Chapter 13: "The Stylish House or Fashions as an Ecological Factor," depicting a home and its landscaped yard. This illustration shows the view of the house and yard during the mid- to late-19th century.
Text and images from top to bottom, left to right:
- Jonathan and Patience / and / David / John / Paul / Daniel / Ruth / Rachel / and / Rover / and / Dobbin
- 1856 / to / 1881
- [sketch of a hanging lamp]
- [drawing showing a bird's-eye view of the house and grounds surrounded by a fence, including the following plants and trees:]
- elderberry
- Richmond cherry
- box elder
- wild plum
- mint
- rhubarb
- maiden blush
- sweet bough
- russet apple
- Damson plums
- Ailanthus
- tawny day lily
- feverfew
- flags
- pinks
- bleeding heart
- red peony
- Johnny-jump-ups
- sweet shrub
- crimson rambler
- lily of the valley
- white pine
- Harison's yellow rose
- snowball bush
- white lilac
- cabbage rose
- [sketches of two vases with flowers to the right of the illustration]
Extent: 1 slide
The lilac : a monograph (3.81692)
Date: 1928Type: Book
Extent: xvi, 581 pages, 172 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm