Sketch of a peony from The Florist (1760) (all images courtesy Peter H. Raven Library/Missouri Botanical Garden) “My personal theory is that in this mid-18th-century time of worldwide exploration, ...
Think of botanical illustrators, and you might envision a world of medieval herbalists, tulip or orchid collectors, or affluent young women of the 17th and 18th centuries making detailed drawings and ...
Thomas Baines (1820-75), illustration of Crinum crassicaule (© The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) Cover of Botanical Sketchbooks by Helen and William Bynum (courtesy Princeton ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A collection of exquisite illustrations of Colorado plants, from foothills to alpine tundra, drew accolades at London’s Royal Horticultural Society Botanical ...
Think of botanical illustrators, and you might envision a world of medieval herbalists, tulip or orchid collectors, or affluent young women of the 17th and 18th centuries making detailed drawings and ...
Originally published in 1788, with title: An easy introduction to drawing flowers, according to nature. Ten illustrations drawn and engraved by Sowerby, interleaved with text. "The author having ...
When 98-year-old botanical artist Margaret Stones died just after Christmas at her home in Australia, she left behind a body of work that will live on for years, especially in Louisiana. “In the 1970s ...