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The art and science of William Bartram / Judith Magee.
- Title
- The art and science of William Bartram / Judith Magee.
- Author
- Magee, Judith, 1952-
- Publication
- University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press ; London : In association with the Natural History Museum, c2007.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 264 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, port.; 32 cm.
- Summary
- William Bartram's love of nature led him to explore the environs of the American Southeast between 1773 and 1777. Here he collected plants and seeds, kept a journal of his observations of nature, and made drawings of the plants and animals he encountered. The completed drawings were sent to his patron in London, and these make up the bulk of the collection held at London's Natural History Museum." "The Art and Science of William Bartram brings together, for the first time, all sixty-eight drawings by Bartram held at the Natural History Museum, along with works by some of the most well-known natural history artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The volume explores Bartram's writings and artwork and reveals how influential he was in American science of the period.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-257) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Prologue : explorer, naturalist, and artist -- Plant hunting and the seed trade -- The merchant's apprentice -- Cape Fear and competition -- Travels in Florida with the king's botanist -- Finding a patron -- Travels : revisiting old haunts and discovering new ones -- Encounters and observations -- The Arcadian dream -- Describing, classifying, and naming -- American science comes of age : ornithology -- American science comes of age : entomology -- Following in Bartram's footsteps -- Epilogue : contentment and serenity.
- ISBN
- 0271029145 (clothbound : alk. paper)
- 9780271029146 (clothbound : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2006020012
- OCLC
- 70131180
- SCSB-12658816
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library