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A handbook of biological illustration
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ISBN: 0226997014 0226997006 9780226997018 Year: 1988 Publisher: Chicago (Ill.): University of Chicago press,

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Drawing nature : the creative process of an artist, illustrator, and naturalist
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ISBN: 9780691255385 Year: 2024 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press,

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"This book will introduce and depict the artistic process, illuminated by award-winning wildlife artist, Linda Feltner. According to Feltner, it all begins with curiosity and obsessively close observation of the subject, which moves to the creation of loose sketches and drawings, and culminates in a finished artwork, or the "final" stage. While it is not a how-to manual, the book does pull together drawing basics and more intermediate and advanced design skills to demonstrate how to use these in the creative process. There are seven chapters that build on each other to incorporate new techniques and concepts. It is designed so that the reader feels as if they're opening Linda's field notebooks, following her own creative process. The book will encourage new and established artists to take risks, develop their own powers of observation, and free their artistic endeavors from the expectation of a final, finished product. Each page is filled with stunning sketches or fantastic final artworks"--


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


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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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The art of the plant world : the great botanical illustrators and their work
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ISBN: 0879511184 9780879511180 Year: 1981 Publisher: Woodstock: 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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Buffon illustré : Les gravures de l’Histoire naturelle (1749-1767)
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ISBN: 2856538592 2856536018 Year: 2019 Publisher: Paris : Publications scientifiques du Muséum,

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L’objet de cet ouvrage est, comme sa composition, double : interprétatif et documentaire. Il donne à penser la relation entre la science de Buffon et son illustration. En première partie, une étude historique et épistémologique dégage les principaux caractères et la grande harmonie de ce corpus, en le comparant à d’autres ouvrages illustrés (Ruysch ou Perrault) ou au contraire privés d’images (Linné). À tirer ainsi les leçons de l’illustration pour la lecture de l’Histoire naturelle, on est alors surpris de découvrir la profonde unité de l’ouvrage, à travers les contributions des différents collaborateurs : Buffon bien sûr, Daubenton évidemment, mais aussi De Sève. Dans un deuxième temps, l’ouvrage présente un corpus iconographique unique, qui met à la disposition des lecteurs l’ensemble des planches illustrant la première série de l’Histoire naturelle générale et particulière (édition princeps, 1749-1767, quinze volumes in-4°). Par là, il s’agit de rendre l’iconographie disponible pour de nouvelles recherches sur l’Histoire naturelle. On peut espérer que ce corpus, exhaustif mais restreint aux quinze premiers volumes, rendu maniable par sa réunion en un volume inédit, suscitera de nombreux travaux.

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