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Botanical sketchbooks : with 275 illustrations / Helen & William Bynum.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Thames & Hudson, in association with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 296 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly colour), facsimiles ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 9780500518816
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 743.934 23
  • 580.222 23
Summary: 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book State Botanical Collection RBG 743.934 BOT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available RBG00024201

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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