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- This database is being built over time. We are adding and describing the Scientific Apparatus held in the Moosnick Collection and slowly adding information on artwork and other artifacts as we discover them or learn about them. If you are interested in supporting this work with a monetary donation, please contact Susan Brown, Library Director.
19th C Art in Library : A-I
John Edward Bale
Harbour Scene, c. 1800s
Oil
Location: Library, main level
Joseph H. Bush
Nannie Massie Bush (1836-1916), Benjamin Dudley Bush (1839-1873), Thomas James Bush (1840-1920), c. 1850
Oil on board
The children, Nannie Massie Bush , Benjamin Dudley Bush, and Thomas James Bush, were the niece and nephews of the artist. Nannie Massie Bush appears in a portrait with her mother as well as a small portrait by herself.
Location: Library, main floor
Joseph H. Bush
Elizabeth Palmer (Mrs. Philip Bush, Jr), c. 1830
oil on board
Elizabeth Palmer was the mother of noted Kentucky artist Joseph H. Bush.
Location: Library, main floor
Joseph H. Bush
Dr. James Bush, c. 1840s
oil on board
James Bush lived 1808-1875 and was professor of anatomy and surgery. He was the artist’s brother. Nannie Massie Bush (1836-1916), Benjamin Dudley Bush (1839-1873), and Thomas James Bush (1840-1920) were his children.
Location: Library, main floor
Joseph H. Bush
Dr. James Miles Bush (1808-1875), c. 1837
oil on board
James Miles Bush was the brother of the artist and husband to Charlotte James Bush. Dr. Bush was a medical faculty member at Transylvania.There is a second portrait of him in which he is slightly older and wears glasses.
Joseph H. Bush
Charlotte James Bush (Mrs. James Miles Bush) and Nannie Massie Bush, c. 1837
oil on board
Charlotte James (1815-1898) was the wife of Dr. James Miles Bush. Nannie Massie Bush (1836-1916) was the niece of the artist and a popular subject. She appears in two other paintings by Bush which the college owns.
Joseph H. Bush
Self-portrait, c. 1837
oil on board
Bush was a Kentucky portrait artist and brother of Dr. James Miles Bush. We have a number of his paintings. Many of them are of his family members.
Location: Library - near staff area
Joseph H. Bush
Nannie Massie Bush , c.1820
oil on board
Nannie Massie Bush was the niece of the artist and a popular subject. She appears in two other paintings by Bush which the college owns.
Location: Library - Main floor by the staff area
Joseph H. Bush
Self Portrait
Joseph H. Bush
Dr. Benjamin Winslow Dudley, circa 1845-50
oil
Dudley lived 1785 - 1870 and was a surgeon of the Transylvania Medical Department from 1809 to 1850. He was known for his operation of lithotomy, or removal of bladder stones. There is another portrait of him by Jouett in the library.
Location: Director’s Office
Joseph H. Bush? Or Jouett?
Nancy Robb sister of Sarah Roche, 1818
oil on board
Nancy Robb was the sister of Sarah Roche whose husband John Roche was a professor of Latin and Greek at Transylvania. The companion portrait of Sarah Roche is privately owned.
Location: Main Floor by the staff area
Samuel Dearborn
James Moore, early 1800s
oil on canvas
Moore was the first president of Transylvania and rector of Christ Church, Lexington's First Episcopal Church. He died in 1814. Although the affixed brass plate names Jouett as the artist, experts have attributed this portrait to Samuel Dearborn.
Location: Main floor by the staff area
Jose de Salazar, New Orleans
unknown subject, c. 1800
oil on board
Location: Library storage
Jacob Frymire
John Todd, date unknown
Oil on canvas
Although we are not sure if this is the same John Todd, a John Todd gave much of the original library and paraphernalia to help the founding of Transylvania. The portrait was a gift of Dr. and Mrs. Stanley Parks.
Location: Main floor in the Reference stacks
Edwin Goddard
Henry Hopson, 1800s
oil on canvas
Hopson was an 1829 graduate of Transylvania University Medical Department.
Location: Thomas study room on the main floor
George P. A. Healy
Joseph Bush, c.1864
Oil
Bush was a Kentucky Portrait Artist and brother to D. James Miles Bush who taught at Transylvania.
Location: Director’s Office
Information provided by Kurt Gohde, BJ Gooch, Buck Pennington, Andrea Fisher and Susan Brown
19th C Art in Library: J-Z
Mathew Jouett
Dr. James Blythe, 1818
oil on canvas
Blythe was president of Transylvania from 1804-1816 and first president of Hanover College. He served as the librarian for the college as well as president in 1804-05. He lived 1765-1842. Portrait of his wife is available.
Mathew Jouett
Margaret Blythe (Mrs. James Blythe), 1818
oil on canvas
Her husband was James Blythe, President of Transylvania from 1804-1816 and first president of Hanover College. Portrait of her husband is available.
Location: Library - Main floor by the staff area
Mathew Jouett
Benjamin Winslow Dudley, date unknown (19th Century)
oil on board
Dudley lived 1785-1870 and was a faculty member and surgeon of the Transylvania Medical Department from 1809 to 1850. He rwas known for his operation of lithotomy, or removal of bladder stones. There is another portrait of him by Bush.
Location: Library
Jouett
Horace Holley
Mathew Jouett
Horace Holley, 1820
oil on board
Holley was president of Transylvania from 1818-1827. Under his leadership the medical department expanded greatly. It was during his time as president that Lexington was known as the "Athens of the West."
Location: Library
Mathew Jouett
Isaac Shelby, early 1800s
oil
Shelby lived 1750-1826. He was the first governor of Kentucky and an early trustee of Transylvania.
Painting was given by the living heirs of W.R. Shelby, Grand Rapids Michigan
Location: Welcome room in Old Morrison
Mathew Jouett
John Roche, date unknown
oil on board
Roche was a professor of Latin and Greek at Transylvania. He died in 1845.
Location: Library - Lower level by the computer lab
possibly Mathew Jouett
Colonel James Morrison, date unknown
oil on board
James Morrison lived 1755-1823. He was a member of the Transylvania Board of Trustees. Old Morrison is named for him. There is a second nearly identical painting. There is speculation that this might be by artist Suddeth Goff.
Location: Library
Mathew Jouett
Robert Patterson, date unknown (19th Century)
oil on canvas
Robert Patterson lived 1753-1827. He was a leading citizen of Lexington and became a trustee of Transylvania in 1795. He was a member of the first party of men to settle on the Town Branch of South Elkhorn Creek. His log cabin is preserved on Transylvania's campus. This painting has also been attributed to Sudduth Goff.
Location: Library - Main floor back hall by the staff area
Stephen Parrish
Harbor scene, c. 1887
etching
Stephen Parrish was Maxfield Parrish's father.
Location: Library - Public Services Librarian’s office
J. T. Poindexter, attributed
Girl in Yellow, date unknown
oil on board
Location: Staff area
J. T. Poindexter, attributed
Believed to be Benjamin Gratz as a boy, date unknown (19th Century)
oil on board
Benjamin Gratz (1792-1884) was a board member of Transylvania and Gratz Park is named for him. The painting was gifted to the university in 1995 by Mrs R Warfield Gratz.
Location:
Samuel Woodson Price
General George Henry Thomas, 1869
oil on canvas
Thomas was a Virginian who was disowned by his family when he decided to fight for the North. He is considered by many historians to be one of the three prominent generals of the Union. The portrait was presented to the college by the heirs of General Price. It was cleaned and restored in the late 1990s.
Location: Library - Stairwell to Special Collections
More info in article on p4 of Transylvania Treasures, 4.1
Ravanaugh
unknown subject
Ravanaugh
Unknown subject
Robert Burns Wilson
Sea at Sunset, date unknown
watercolor
Artist Unknown
Botany Cabinet, c. 1830s
Kentucky Walnut
This Botany Cabinet belonged to Charles Wilkins Short who was an 1810 Transylvania graduate. He served as Dean of the Faculty and Chair of Materia Medica and Medical Botany at Transylvania from 1825 to 1837. In 1828, with his colleague John Esten Cooke, M.D., he founded the Transylvania Journal of Medicine and the Associate Sciences.
More information in article on p12 of Transylvania Treasures, 3.2.
Location: Library
Artist:unknown
Date painted:
Subject: unknown
Location: Not on display