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A vision of Eden : the life and work of Marianne North.
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ISBN: 0030574536 Year: 1980 Publisher: New York Holt, Rinehart & Winston

American wildflower florilegium
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ISBN: 0585235813 9780585235813 0929398432 Year: 1992 Publisher: Denton : University of North Texas Press,


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Banksia Lady
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ISBN: 1922235814 9781922235817 9781922235800 Year: 2015 Publisher: Clayton, Victoria, Australia

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This is the story of Celia Rosser, the internationally acclaimed botanical illustrator, who ultimately dedicated her life to painting the entire genus of Banksia, the only artist to have done such a thing. Celia's dedication to the task put her at the center of the Monash Banksia Project, underwritten by Monash University (Australia) for 25 years and culminating in the production of an extraordinary three-volume florilegium that became one of the great books published in the 20th century. This is also the story of the emergence of an artist who grew up in difficult circumstances during the Gre


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Illustrated flora of Bambusoideae in China.
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ISBN: 9811627584 Year: 2022 Publisher: Singapore : Springer,


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Draughtsmen, botanists and nature : the construction of eighteenth-century botanical illustrations
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ISBN: 1280716444 9786610716449 1402048203 Year: 2006 Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer,

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This book is the first in-depth study of eighteenth-century botanical illustrations, and its findings offer a completely new insight into the working practices of the botanists and scientific draughtsmen of this period. The author describes the different production stages of these illustrations, traces their uses by means of the private correspondence of participants and the documentation of the learned societies and academies, and explores their visual language, with particular emphasis placed on the difficult issue of colour. Finally, and for the first time, the author presents a convincing description of how these botanical illustrations developed, ascertaining the criteria that drove this process, which was arrived at through a careful study of the many copying links that the author discovered existed between images of the same species -- a sophisticated strategy that fulfilled the exacting requirements of eighteenth-century scientific botanical illustrations.


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The art of the plant world : the great botanical illustrators and their work
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ISBN: 0879511184 9780879511180 Year: 1981 Publisher: The Overlook Press,


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The orchid observed : five centuries of botanical illustration : an exhibit of books from the collections of william k. glikbarg and the stanford university libraries, november 15, 1982, through january 15, 1983.
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ISBN: 091122100X Year: 1982 Publisher: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Libraries,


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The art of botanical illustration
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ISBN: 9781851497607 1851497609 Year: 2015 Publisher: Woodbridge ACC Art Books


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Visible empire : botanical expeditions & visual culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment
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ISBN: 9780226058535 0226058530 Year: 2012 Publisher: Chicago, Ill. University of Chicago Press

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