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Inventory of the Margaret Stones Watercolors,
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Creator:
Stones, Margaret
Title: Margaret Stones Watercolors
Date: 1987
Extent:
0.2 linear feet
Abstract: Margaret Stones (1920-2018), botanical artist, served for twenty-five years as the principal
illustrator for
Curtis's Botanical Magazine and worked under commission for the Royal
Botanical Gardens, Kew, England. The collection contains six original watercolors of Northern California
plants, painted in 1987 while Stones was visiting California.
Physical location: Researchers should contact Special Collections to request collections, as
many are stored offsite.
Repository:
University of California, Davis. Library. Department of Special
Collections.
Davis, California 95616-5292
Collection number: MC085
Language of Material: Collection materials in English.
Margaret Stones (1920-2018), botanical artist, served for twenty-five years as the principal illustrator for
Curtis's Botanical Magazine and worked under commission for the Royal Botanical Gardens,
Kew, England. She is the author of
The endemic flora of Tasmania (1967) and
Flora of
Louisiana
(1991).
The collection contains six original watercolors of Northern California plants, painted in 1987 while Stones
was visiting California. Arranged alphabetically by plant name.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online
public access catalog.
Stones, Margaret
Plants in art
Watercolor painting
Botanical illustration
Botany--California, Northern--Pictorial works
Collection is open for research.
Donated by Margaret Stones in 1989.
Sara Gunasekara processed these papers and created and encoded this finding aid.
[Identification of item], Margaret Stones Watercolors, MC085, Special Collections, UC Davis
Library, University of California, Davis.
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permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission
for publication is given on behalf of the Regents of the University of California as the owner of the physical items. It is
not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.