Lindsell: Album of drawings of botanical motifs from Minoan and Mycenaean pottery, frescoes and metalwork by Alice Elizabeth Lindsell (1878-1948), classicist

Fonds

Reference Code: GBR/3437/LDSL

Dates

Creation: 1930s

Creator

Lindsell, Alice Elizabeth, 1878-1948 (classicist and botanical artist) (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Lindsell, A. E., 'A note on Greek crocus', pp. 47-54;
Bryer, A. 'Alice Lindsell's Botanical Sketchbook, pp. 55-62';
Lindsell, A. E., 'Was Theocritus a botanist?', pp. 63-76; in Raven, et al. Plants and Plant Lore in Ancient Greece. 2000.

Extent

1 album(s) (1 ring-binder album with loose leaves) : paper

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Custodial History

This album was given to the Faculty of Classics in 1949 by Arthur Lindsell, brother of Alice and executor of her estate upon her death in 1948, via the intermediary John E. Raven, himself a classicist and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.