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Lucy Adeline Briggs Cole Rawson Peckinpah Smallman
Born(1840-08-25)25 August 1840[1]
Middleboro, Massachusetts[1]
Died12 October 1920(1920-10-12) (aged 80)[1]
Resting placeMountain View Cemetery (Oakland, California)[2]
Painting of an unidentified yellow flower, signed Rawson-Peckinpah.

Life[edit]

Lucy Adeline Briggs (1840-1920) was an American watercolour botanical artist, and botanical collector, born in Middleboro, Massachusetts. She married her first husband, James Cole, in 1860, who died due to drowning in the Mokelumne River in 1862.[3][2] Lucy subsequently married her second husband a year later, Julius Addison Rawson, in San Francisco.[1] Rawson then died, along with Lucy’s only child, in 1877.[1] She then re-married in 1886, to Thaddeus Edgar Peckinpah, and later to James Knight Smallman in 1912.[1][4]

In the botanical literature she is often referred to simply as Mrs. Peckinpah,[5][6] or Mrs. L.A. Rawson Peckinpah.[7]

Art[edit]

According to the History of Solano and Napa Counties, California, published 1912, “as a close student of nature [Lucy] has made a deep study of botany.... Her painted collection of California wild flowers numbers over three hundred."[8] Lucy also taught painting at the Young Ladies' Seminary of Benicia.[8]

Basket collecting[edit]

History of Solano and Napa Counties, California noted that Mrs Peckinpah possessed "a fine collection of Indian baskets and curios," of which a portion are now held at the National Museum of the American Indian, after being acquired by Homer Earle Sargent, Jr. after her death.[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]


Botanical Legacy[edit]

The History of Solano and Napa Counties, California notes that Lucy collected type material for multiple Californian species, two of which eponymise one of her married names: Rawson.[8] These are:

Species collected by Lucy are today held by the Steere Herbarium, New York Botanic Gardens[21], the Greene-Nieuwland Herbarium at the University of Notre Dame[22], and the National Herbarium of Victoria at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria[23]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f Yerger, Rebecca (18 June 2011). "Three women found their muses in the flora of Napa County". Napa Valley Register. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Lucy Adeline Briggs Smallman". Find a Grave. 2002. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
  3. ^ Michael L. Charters (2005–2021). "California Plant Names: Latin and Greek Meanings and Derivations. A Dictionary of Botanical and Biographical Etymology". Retrieved 21 March 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: date format (link)
  4. ^ "rawsonia'na/rawsonia'nus". California Plant Names: Latin and Greek Meanings and Derivations. Michael L. Charters. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
  5. ^ Jepson, Willis Linn (1901). A flora of western middle California. Berkeley, California: Encina Pub. Co. p. 434.
  6. ^ Greene, E.L. (1900). "Studies in the Cruciferae-iii". Pittonia. 4: 191.
  7. ^ Greene, E.L. (1900). "New or Noteworthy Species". Pittonia. 2: 166.
  8. ^ a b c d Gregory, Thomas Jefferson (1912). History of Solano and Napa counties, California, with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the counties who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present time. Los Angeles, California: Historic record company. p. 429.
  9. ^ Galban, Maria (14 January 2020). "Spotlight on Collections: Expanding Both What We Know and What's Available Online". Smithsonian Voices. Smithsonian Museum. Retrieved 2 May 2022. The Western Mono coiled basket jar shown above entered the collections of the Museum of the American Indian in 1929 as a gift from Homer E. Sargent Jr. (1875–1957). The original catalog card includes only Sargent's name as the collector and donor. However, Sargent's original catalog information, which sat elsewhere in our archives, indicates that this basket was made by Mary Burkhead, a Western Mono woman from North Fork, California, and acquired from her around 1900. The basket was part of the collection of Lucy A. Peckinpah (1840–1920) of Napa, California, until Sargent purchased it from her estate in 1921. With this additional information, two previously unknown individuals are now associated with this basket, including the Native artist.
  10. ^ "Winnowing basket". National Museum of the American Indian. Smithsonian Museum. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
  11. ^ "Basket bowl". National Museum of the American Indian. Smithsonian Museum. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
  12. ^ "Basket bowl". National Museum of the American Indian. Smithsonian Museum. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
  13. ^ "Basket bowl". National Museum of the American Indian. Smithsonian Museum. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
  14. ^ "Basket bowl". National Museum of the American Indian. Smithsonian Museum. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
  15. ^ "Basket jar". National Museum of the American Indian. Smithsonian Museum. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
  16. ^ "Arabis rectissima Greene". International Plant Names Index (IPNI). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries; Australian National Botanic Gardens. 1900. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
  17. ^ "Nemophila venosa Jeps". International Plant Names Index (IPNI). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries; Australian National Botanic Gardens. 1901. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
  18. ^ "Collomia rawsoniana Greene". International Plant Names Index (IPNI). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries; Australian National Botanic Gardens. 1888. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
  19. ^ "Senecio rawsonianus Greene". International Plant Names Index (IPNI). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries; Australian National Botanic Gardens. 1891. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
  20. ^ "Viola anodonta Greene". International Plant Names Index (IPNI). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries; Australian National Botanic Gardens. 1902. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
  21. ^ http://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/vh/specimen-list/?ColParticipantLocal_tab=Peckinpah
  22. ^ https://plants.jstor.org/search?si=26&filter=free_text&so=ps_group_by_genus_species+asc&Query=peckinpah
  23. ^ https://avh.ala.org.au/occurrences/search?q=taxa%3A%22Peckinpah%22


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