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Author:

Fasolino, Chris, author.

Title:

Early nature artists in Florida : Audubon and his fellow explorers / Chris Fasolino.

Publisher:

The History Press,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

127 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm

Subject:

Audubon, John James,--1785-1851.
Catesby, Mark,--1683-1749.
Bartram, William,--1739-1823.
Audubon, John James,--1785-1851--Influence.
Artists--Biography.
Natural history--Florida--History.
Naturalists--Biography.
Nature (Aesthetics)
Birds in art.
Plants in art.
Animals in art.
Nature in art.
Florida--In art.
Audubon, John James,--1785-1851.
Bartram, William,--1739-1823.
Catesby, Mark,--1683-1749.
Animals in art.
Artists.
Birds in art.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Natural history.
Naturalists.
Nature (Aesthetics)
Nature in art.
Plants in art.
Florida.
Art.
Biographies.
History.
Biographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

From London and Florida : Catesby and the Royal Society -- "The beauty of their colours" : Catesby as and artist of nature -- The ibis, the flamingo and the coral : images from Catesby's work -- Migratory creatures : Catesby as a natural historian -- "Nature's noblemen" : the Bartrams and British Florida -- Crossing the lake of alligators -- The flower hunter : Bartram and the Seminole -- The case of the missing vulture -- "Silver regions of the clouded skies" : science and artistry in Travels -- Escape from Napoleon : Audobon's origin story -- Pelicans, a faithful dog and swashbuckling caracaras : St. Augustine and the St. John's River -- "Elegance and grace" : Florida wading birds -- Acrobatic terns and joyous cormorants : the dry tortugas and the keys -- Scrub-jays and birds of prey : treasure hunting in Florida -- Sandhill cranes and roseate spoonbills : Birds of America and the birds of Florida.

ISBN:

1467150320
9781467150323

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1260341373

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)