Bynum, Helen,

Botanical sketchbooks : with 275 illustrations / Helen & William Bynum. - 296 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly colour), facsimiles ; 28 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

While highly finished drawings and paintings frequently feature in histories of botanical art, the preparatory sketches, first impressions and creative thoughts on paper behind them are rarely seen and have often remained hidden and locked away. Botanical Sketchbooks brings these personal and vividly spontaneous records gloriously back into the light. In a series of biographical portraits organized thematically into four sections, the book highlights notebooks, journals, albums, loose pieces of paper, works on vellum, manuscripts, letters, herbarium sheets and marginalia - even one drawing on the back of an envelope.

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Botanical illustration.
Flowers in art.
Plants in art.
Botany in art.
Botany--Pictorial works.

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