Article ID: CBB342120356

Illustrating the ideal: Crystal models and illustrations in the early nineteenth century (2018)

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In the stores of museums and university departments of mineralogy and crystallography, there are collections of sets of models of crystal shapes. Representing the external form of natural specimens, their use was for identification and demonstration purposes, by scientists, teachers and students from the late eighteenth century onwards. Whilst studying crystal model collections at the National Museums Scotland in Edinburgh, I came across the illustration work of Miss Delvalle Lowry. Her name, along with that of her father Wilson, appeared on plates illustrating an 1820 textbook by Nathaniel Larkin, a London teacher of solid geometry. Miss Lowry married the painter John Varley in 1825 and wrote a number of mineralogical texts that were reprinted through the first half of the nineteenth century. Delvalle Lowry was able to enjoy this career not least as a result of her ability to draw. The role of the Society of Arts in encouraging both drawing and the study of crystallography may well have been a feature of her success.

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Authors & Contributors
Clary, Renee M.
Edward P.F. Rose
Madeleine Gill
Ferraris, Giovanni
Crothers, Scott
Wandersee, James H.
Concepts
Mineralogy
Earth sciences
Geology
Science education and teaching
Mines and mining
Crystallography
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
17th century
20th century, early
16th century
Places
United Kingdom
Italy
Alps (Europe)
England
Scotland
Florence (Italy)
Institutions
Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA)
Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Universita di Firenze
Royal School of Mines
University of Edinburgh
Cambridge University
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