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The golden age of botanical art
- Title
- The golden age of botanical art / Martyn Rix.
- Author
- Rix, Martyn
- Publication
- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press : Kew, 2013.
- ©2013
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Details
- Description
- 256 pages : illustrations; 29 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The origins of botanical art -- Leonardo da Vinci -- Early works of the sixteenth century -- Jacopo Ligozzi -- Seventeenth-century florilegia -- Dutch flower paintings -- North American plants -- Linnaeus and plant classification -- Travellers to the Levant -- Maria Sybilla Merian -- The exploration of Russia and Japan -- Les vélins du muséum -- Botany bay and beyond -- Sir Joseph Banks -- The golden age in England -- Mrs Delany and her paper mosaicks -- South American adventures -- Thornton's the temple of flora, or garden of nature -- The golden age in France -- Empress Joséphine -- Botanical and horticultural illustrated journals -- Henry C. Andrews -- Early Chinese plant drawings -- Père David and the French missionaries -- The company school in India -- The story of Flora Danica 1761-1883 -- A new era at Kew -- George Maw -- Victorian travellers -- Elwes and the genus Lilium -- Bringing China to Europe -- Modern florilegia -- The flowers of war and beyond -- Exhibiting botanical watercolours -- Carrying on the tradition.
- Call Number
- JQF 14-175
- ISBN
- 9780226093598 (hardcover)
- 022609359X (hardcover)
- LCCN
- 2013012419
- OCLC
- 835118070
- Author
- Rix, Martyn, author.
- Title
- The golden age of botanical art / Martyn Rix.
- Publisher
- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press : Kew, 2013.
- Copyright Date
- ©2013
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Editions:
- Also issued as: Rix, Martyn. Golden age of botanical art. London : Andre Deutsch, 2012 9780233003641 (OCoLC)794136222
- Research Call Number
- JQF 14-175