[John Thorley in his library studying bees] [graphic]

Description

Title: [John Thorley in his library studying bees] [graphic]
Creator: Loveday, T., printmaker
Published / Created: [1772?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: John Thorley sits in his library at a cloth-draped table writing with a quill pen; the shelves behind him are lined with books. He makes notes on paper as he fingers bodies of bees (labeled 'B') on the table beside him. Through open French doors are seen six beehives (labeled 'A') with bees flying around them on a shelf in the garden
Description: Title devised by cataloger.
Publication date from unverified data in local card catalog record.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Image originally appeared in: Thorley, J. Melisselogia, or, The female monarchy. London : printed for the author; and sold by N. Thorley; and J. Davidson, 1744.
Not in the Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum.
Mounted to 23 x 14 cm.
Provenance: Gift of Joseph Verner Reed (Yale 1926) to the Yale Library, 1958. Portions were transferred to Lewis Walpole Library 1960. For other items from this gift refer to Beinecke Library's GEN MSS 1000.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 18 x 13 cm
Language: English

Genre: Book illustrations
Portrait prints
Etchings England London 1772
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Thorley, John, 1671-1759,
Subject (Topic): Bee culture
Beehives
Entomologists
Libraries (Rooms & spaces)
Bookcases
Subjects: Thorley, John, 1671-1759
Bee culture
Beehives
Entomologists
Libraries (Rooms & spaces)
Bookcases
England > London > 1772

Access: Public
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