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Edward Bawden's Kew Gardens

Title
Edward Bawden's Kew Gardens / Peyton Skipwith & Brian Webb.
Author
Skipwith, Peyton, 1939-
Publication
London, England : V & A Publishing in association with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2014.

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Additional Authors
  • Webb, Brian.
  • Bawden, Edward, 1903-1989.
Description
128 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm
Summary
This book draws on Edward Bawden's delightful illustrations, posters and linocuts of Kew Gardens made over 60 years. It presents a light-hearted social history of Kew, peopled with the many Hanoverian Kings, Queens and Princes who resided there, as well as courtiers such as the 3rd Earl of Bute, Joseph Banks Fulke Greville and their proteges including William Chambers, William Aiton, Fanny Burney and Sir William Hooker. Alongside Bawden's posters and linocuts, the book is illustrated with the contemporary caricatures of Thomas Rowlandson, George Cruikshank and James Gillray as well as botanical illustrations by Franz Bauer, Evelyn Dunbar and others. The book also reproduces in full Bawden's previously unpublished manuscript guide to Kew Gardens, drawn by the artist when he was just 19, and the redrawn illustrations and maps in Robert Herring's 1930 book Adam and Evelyn at Kew.
Alternative Title
Kew Gardens
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Preface -- A general guide -- Historic Kew -- Adam & Evelyn at Kew -- Edward Bawden & Kew.
Call Number
JQE 14-136
ISBN
  • 9781851777792 (hardback)
  • 1851777792 (hardback)
OCLC
873823754
Author
Skipwith, Peyton, 1939-
Title
Edward Bawden's Kew Gardens / Peyton Skipwith & Brian Webb.
Publisher
London, England : V & A Publishing in association with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2014.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Added Author
Webb, Brian.
Bawden, Edward, 1903-1989.
Research Call Number
JQE 14-136
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