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Flowers from the royal gardens of Kew : two centuries of Curtis's botanical magazine / Ruth L.A. Stiff.

Title
Flowers from the royal gardens of Kew : two centuries of Curtis's botanical magazine / Ruth L.A. Stiff.
Author
Stiff, Ruth L. A.
Publication
Hanover, NH : Distributed by University Press of New England, c1988.

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Description
79 p. : col. ill.; 28 cm.
Summary
Catalog for the exhibition held at Dartmouth College, July 16-Sept. 11, 1988; Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Oct. 11-Dec. 16, 1988; National Museum of Natural History, Jan. 26-Apr. 30, 1989; New York Public Library with New York Botanical Garden, June 3-Sept. 2, 1989; Missouri Botanical Garden, Oct. 12-Nov. 30, 1989; Chicago Botanic Garden, Mar. 9-Apr. 22, 1990.
Uniform Title
Curtis's botanical magazine.
Subject
  • Curtis, William, 1746-1799
  • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew > Art collections > Exhibitions
  • Curtis's botanical magazine
  • Curtis's botanical magazine > Exhibitions
  • Botanists > England > Biography
  • Botanical illustration > Exhibitions
  • Flowers > Pictorial works > Exhibitions
  • Botanical illustration > Exhibitions
Genre/Form
  • Biographies
  • Exhibition catalogs
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Foreword / Grenville Ll. Lucas -- Preface and acknowledgements / Ruth L. A. Stiff -- William Curtis: the man and his magazine / Christopher Grey-Wilson -- The 'Botanical Magazine': chronicle of gardening taste / R. G. C. Desmond -- Biographical sketches of contributing artists.
ISBN
0874514649 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^^88040130^//r88
OCLC
  • 17841325
  • SCSB-12697834
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library