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Botanical illustration is the art of depicting the form, color, and details of plant species. They are generally meant to be scientifically descriptive about subjects depicted and are often found printed alongside a botanical description in books, magazines, and other media.
For his book The Art of Botanical Illustration in 1950 [7] he was awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal by the Royal Horticultural Society. [1] This book was considered the first comprehensive review of botanical illustration in Europe. Subsequent editions (by his co-author, Willian T. Stearn) provided coverage of more of the world and the ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Botanical art" ... Botanical illustrator; Botanical illustration * List of florilegia and ...
Chrysanthemum × rubellum by artists Lilian Snelling and Stella Ross-Craig, published in Curtis's Botanical Magazine in 1939 Stella Ross-Craig (19 March 1906 [ 2 ] – 6 February 2006) was an English illustrator best known as a prolific illustrator of native flora .
William Hooker (1779–1832) was a British illustrator of natural history.He studied under Franz Bauer (1758–1840), becoming the official artist of the Royal Horticultural Society from 1812 until retirement in 1820, [1] whose publications he illustrated.
In 1974 she was appointed University Botanical Artist, and began the project of painting every Banksia species. The project took over 25 years to complete, and resulted in the publication of a three volume monograph entitled The Banksias, with accompanying text by Alex George. Publication of the final volume in 2000 represented the first time ...
The Latin introduction to this work states "Sibthorp took with him a painter of excellent reputation, Ferdinand Bauer, whose merits our illustrations demonstrate." Joseph Hooker called Flora Graeca , with its 966 superbly hand-coloured illustrations, "the greatest botanical work that has ever appeared" ( On the Flora of Australia , London, 1859).
Elizabeth Twining was born in 1805 into the Twinings tea-merchant family. She was one of the nine children of Elizabeth Mary (née Smythies) and Richard Twining. [2] She was raised in London, where she learned art and drawing as part of her education, during which she was inspired by Curtis's The Botanical Magazine and the gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society at Chiswick.