Elizabeth Rivers

Elizabeth Rivers was a British painter, printmaker, illustrator, copper engraver and writer (1903–1964). She was born at Hertfordshire and died at Dalkey.

Also recorded as Elizabeth Joyce Rivers.

Elizabeth Rivers in brief

Born
1903
Died
1964
Known for
painter, printmaker, illustrator, copper engraver and writer
Place of birth
Hertfordshire
Contents

Catalogued works

14 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service, Open Library and Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1788 to 1981.

Cat and Egg, held by Ulster Museum, inventory BELUM.U495. Initium s. evangelii secundum S. Joannem. Colors of the Universe. Stranger in Aran. Ireland: The Aran islands, dated 1930. Out of bedlam. World on a glass plate : early anthropological photographs from the Pitt Rivers Museum / Elizabeth Edwards, Lynne Williamson., dated [1981], held by Wellcome Collection. The history of Lady Caroline Rivers, in a series of letters. In two volumes. By Miss Elizabeth Todd. .., dated 1788, held by Wellcome Collection. Observations on the political conduct of the protestant dissenters including a retrospective view of their history, from the time of Queen Elizabeth; in five letters to a friend, by the Rev. David Rivers, Late Preacher to a Congregation of Dissenters at Highgate., dated 1799, held by Wellcome Collection. Decapitation of Saint John the Baptist. Line engraving by Rivers, 1813, after G. Douw., dated 1813, held by Wellcome Collection. Vaal River, South Africa: part of the river near Potchefstroom. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris., dated 1888, held by Wellcome Collection. Vaal River, South Africa: cattle near a bend in the river. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris., dated 1888, held by Wellcome Collection. St Francis Bay, South Africa: part of the Gamtoos River and a boat. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris., dated 1888, held by Wellcome Collection. Hôtel des Invalides, Paris: panoramic view from the river. Engraving by Elizabeth Byrne, 1821, after F. Nash., dated 1 February 1821, held by Wellcome Collection.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 2 named public collections.

Ulster Museum: 1 recorded object, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Wellcome Collection: 79 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

10 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Savage [née Darcy], Elizabeth, suo jure Countess Rivers (1581–1651), courtier and victim of popular violence, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004. Harris, Prof. Clare Elizabeth, (born 29 March 1965), Professor of Visual Anthropology, since 2014, and Curator for Asian Collections, Pitt Rivers Museum, since 1998, University of Oxford; Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, since 2002, Who's Who, 2019. Elizabeth Rivers and Christopher Smart:, Literature and the Arts, 2023. 10 Elizabeth Rivers and Christopher Smart: Eighteenth-Century Poetry across Time and Form, Literature and the Arts, 2024. Analytical validation of a novel comprehensive genomic profiling informed circulating tumor DNA monitoring assay for solid tumors., PLoS ONE, 2024. Beyond survival: Multisystem long-term outcomes following HSCT in chronic granulomatous diseaseLate effects after HSCT in chronic granulomatous disease, Journal of Human Immunity, 2026. Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein regulates autophagy and inflammasome activity in innate immune cells, Nature Communications, 2017. Ethical and Clinical Boundaries in Genomics & Newborn Screening: A Brief Report from IPIC2025, International Journal of Neonatal Screening, 2026. Targeted gene correction of human hematopoietic stem cells for the treatment of Wiskott - Aldrich Syndrome, Nature Communications, 2020. Wiskott Aldrich syndrome protein regulates non-selective autophagy and mitochondrial homeostasis in human myeloid cells, eLife, 2020.

Digitised editions and texts

11 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive.

Tracking the Complex Absorption in NGC 2110 with Two Suzaku Observations (2014) — Internet Archive. NuSTAR Spectroscopy of Multi-Component X-ray Reflection from NGC 1068 (2014) — Internet Archive. Emitting electrons and source activity in Markarian 501 (2012) — Internet Archive. connemara journal (1947) — Internet Archive. Connection between the Accretion Disk and Jet in the Radio Galaxy 3C 111 (2011) — Internet Archive. stranger in aran (1946) — Internet Archive. Spectral Survey of X-Ray Bright Active Galactic Nuclei from the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (2011) — Internet Archive. A Suzaku Observation of Mkn 590 Reveals a Vanishing Soft Excess (2012) — Internet Archive. A Suzaku Observation of MCG-2-58-22: Constraining the Geometry of the Circumnuclear Material (2011) — Internet Archive. Twelve and a Half Years of Observations of Centaurus A with RXTE (2011) — Internet Archive. An Occultation Event in Centaurus A and the Clumpy Torus Model (2011) — Internet Archive.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 5 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 5 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 5 means 5 genuinely separate publishers of record. 13 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Chronology

  1. 1903Elizabeth Rivers born at Hertfordshire.
  2. 1930Ireland: The Aran islands.
  3. 1946stranger in aran digitised by Internet Archive.
  4. 1947connemara journal digitised by Internet Archive.
  5. 1964Elizabeth Rivers died at Dalkey.
  6. 2011Connection between the Accretion Disk and Jet in the Radio Galaxy 3C 111 digitised by Internet Archive.
  7. 2012Emitting electrons and source activity in Markarian 501 digitised by Internet Archive.
  8. 2014Tracking the Complex Absorption in NGC 2110 with Two Suzaku Observations digitised by Internet Archive.
  9. 2014NuSTAR Spectroscopy of Multi-Component X-ray Reflection from NGC 1068 digitised by Internet Archive.

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

  1. 1.

    10 Elizabeth Rivers and Christopher Smart: Eighteenth-Century Poetry across Time and Form, Literature and the Arts, 2024

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  2. 2.

    Elizabeth Rivers and Christopher Smart:, Literature and the Arts, 2023

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  3. 3.

    Harris, Prof. Clare Elizabeth, (born 29 March 1965), Professor of Visual Anthropology, since 2014, and Curator for Asian Collections, Pitt Rivers Museum, since 1998, University of Oxford; Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, since 2002, Who's Who, 2019

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  4. 4.

    Open Library author record for Elizabeth Rivers (Internet Archive), 4 catalogued works.

    Institutional database · Scholarly · Internet Archive

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  5. 5.

    Savage [née Darcy], Elizabeth, suo jure Countess Rivers (1581–1651), courtier and victim of popular violence, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  6. 6.

    Directory of Open Access Journals lists 6 articles naming Elizabeth Rivers.

    open access index · Unverified

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  7. 7.

    Internet Archive, 11 digitised items catalogued under Elizabeth Rivers as creator.

    digital repository · Unverified

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  8. 8.

    Wellcome Collection catalogue records 79 works naming Elizabeth Rivers.

    museum collection · Unverified · Wellcome Collection

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  9. 9.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q21457348: Elizabeth Rivers

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikimedia Foundation

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  10. 10.

    “Elizabeth Rivers”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

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