The art of botanical illustration
1994, New Edition. Woodbridge : Antique Collectors' Club in association with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #476328
ISBN: 1851491775
Physical description; 368 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 28 cm. Notes; Previous edition: London : Collins, 1950. Includes bibliographical references (pages 344-350) and index. Contents; The Botanical Artist – The Legacy of Antiquity – The Rebirth of Naturalism – The First Printed Herbals – The Herbals of Brunfels and Fuchs – The Decline of the Woodcut – Some Flower Painters of the Late Sixteenth Century – The Early Etchers and Metal Engravers – Rabel, Robert, and Aubriet – Holland: The Flower-piece and the Dutch Influence – Some Botanical Books of the Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries – The Age of Ehret – West and East – The Age of Redouté – The Botanical Magazine – Kilburn, Sowerby, and Sydenham Edwards – Francis and Ferdinand Bauer – Thornton and the Temple of Flora – England in the Early Nineteenth Century – Walter Fitch: The Age of the Lithograph – John Ruskin: A Digression – The Second Half of the Nineteenth Century – The Twentieth Century – Epilogue: Five Hundred Years of Botanical Illustration – Appendices: Series of eight articles by W.H. Fitch on botanical drawing, from the Gardeners' Chronicle, 1869 ; Some illustrated books on British flowering plants ; Some sources of further information. Subjects; Botanical illustration – History. Botany – Pictorial works. Flowers in art. Herbals.
Price: €35.00