TY - BOOK AU - Bynum,Helen AU - Bynum,W.F. ED - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, TI - Botanical sketchbooks: with 275 illustrations SN - 9780500518816 U1 - 743.934 23 PY - 2017/// CY - London PB - Thames & Hudson, in association with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew KW - Botanical illustration KW - Flowers in art KW - Plants in art KW - Botany in art KW - Botany KW - Pictorial works N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - 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 ER -