Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-294).
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 early eighteenth centuries -- The age of Ehret -- West and East -- The age of Redoute -- 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 -- England in the second half of the nineteenth century -- The twentieth century -- Epilogue: five hundred years of botanical illustration.
Series:
New naturalist, a survey of British natural history ; [14]
OCLC:
(OCoLC)2328942
Locations:
PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)
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