Richard Edes Harrison

Richard Edes Harrison was an American cartographer, scientific illustrator and graphic designer (1901–1994). He was born at Baltimore and died at Manhattan.

Richard Edes Harrison in brief

Born
1901
Died
1994
Known for
cartographer, scientific illustrator and graphic designer
Place of birth
Baltimore
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Catalogued works

10 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service, The Art Institute of Chicago and Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1819 to 2010.

Alone. Pablo Escobar, dated 2010, wood, polystyrene, cement, acrylic, and ceramic peppers, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 2011.119. A biographical dictionary of Irish Quakers / Richard S. Harrison., dated 2008, held by Wellcome Collection. The development of modern medicine : an interpretation of the social and scientific factors involved ... / [Richard Harrison Shryock]., dated 1947, held by Wellcome Collection. Letters of Richard D. Arnold, M.D., 1808-1876, mayor of Savannah, Georgia, first secretary of the American Medical Association / R.D. Arnold ; edited by Richard H. Shryock., dated 1970, held by Wellcome Collection. Directions for the treatment of persons who have taken poison, and those in a state of apparent death; together with the means of detecting poisons and adulterations in wine; also of distinguishing real from apparent death / By M. P.[!] Orfila. Translated from the French by R.H. Black, surgeon. With an appendix, on suspended animation and the means of prevention., dated 1819, held by Wellcome Collection. Notes on noses / [by Eden Warwick [pseud.]]., dated 1857, held by Wellcome Collection. Recent advances in anatomy. Second series / edited by F. Goldby and R.J. Harrison., dated 1961, held by Wellcome Collection. Anatomical terms : their origina and derivation / by E.J. Field and R.J. Harrison., dated 1968, held by Wellcome Collection. Course of qualitative chemical analysis / by the late Wm. Geo. Valentin., dated 1880, held by Wellcome Collection.

In public collections

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

The Art Institute of Chicago: 1 recorded object, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Wellcome Collection: 18 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

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

: Look at the World . Richard Edes Harrison., Far Eastern Survey, 1947. Review: <i>Look at the World</i>, by Richard Edes Harrison, Far Eastern Survey, 1947. Richard Edes Harrison and the challenge to American cartography, Imago Mundi, 1998. Richard Edes Harrison and the Cartographic Perspective of Modern Internationalism, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 2012. New Compass of the World: a symposium on political geography, edited by Hans W. Weigert, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Richard Edes Harrison, ARCTIC, 1951. Modernist Counter-Mappings: Three Architects Restructure the World, IdeAs, 2025.

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. 15 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Chronology

  1. 1901Richard Edes Harrison born at Baltimore.
  2. 1947The development of modern medicine : an interpretation of the social and scientific factors involved ... / [Richard Harrison Shryock]. (Wellcome Collection).
  3. 1970Letters of Richard D. Arnold, M.D., 1808-1876, mayor of Savannah, Georgia, first secretary of the American Medical Association / R.D. Arnold ; edited by Richard H. Shryock. (Wellcome Collection).
  4. 1994Richard Edes Harrison died at Manhattan.
  5. 2008A biographical dictionary of Irish Quakers / Richard S. Harrison. (Wellcome Collection).
  6. 2010Pablo Escobar (The Art Institute of Chicago).

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.

    : Look at the World . Richard Edes Harrison., Far Eastern Survey, 1947

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  2. 2.

    New Compass of the World: a symposium on political geography, edited by Hans W. Weigert, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Richard Edes Harrison, ARCTIC, 1951

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  3. 3.

    Review: <i>Look at the World</i>, by Richard Edes Harrison, Far Eastern Survey, 1947

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  4. 4.

    Richard Edes Harrison and the Cartographic Perspective of Modern Internationalism, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 2012

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  5. 5.

    Richard Edes Harrison and the challenge to American cartography, Imago Mundi, 1998

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  6. 6.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q62587903: Richard Edes Harrison

    Institutional database · Scholarly · Wikimedia Foundation

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  7. 7.

    Directory of Open Access Journals lists 1 article naming Richard Edes Harrison.

    open access index · Unverified

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  8. 8.

    The Art Institute of Chicago, collection records associated with Richard Edes Harrison.

    museum collection · Unverified · The Art Institute of Chicago

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  9. 9.

    Wellcome Collection catalogue records 18 works naming Richard Edes Harrison.

    museum collection · Unverified · Wellcome Collection

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  10. 10.

    “Richard Edes Harrison”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

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