Picturing plants
Subtitle: an analytical history of botanical illustration
By: by Gill Saunders.
Contributors: Victoria and Albert Museum.
Publisher: University of California Press in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
Subjects: Victoria and Albert Museum -- Catalogs; Botanical illustration -- History; Botanical artists -- History; Plants in art -- History; Illustrated books -- History; Botanical illustration -- England -- London -- Catalogs
Other titles: Plants
Description: This beautifully illustrated book will explore the purpose and function of the whole range of botanical art, from early woodcut herbals and painted florilegia, botanical treatises and records of new discoveries, to gardening manuals, seed catalogues and field guides for the amateur enthusiast.

Drawing on a superb archive of material in the Victoria and Albert Museum, much of it hitherto unpublished, it ranges from the 15th-century printed book to the work of contemporary illustrators, taking in unique florilegia, the work of acknowledged masters such as Ehret and Redoute, and examples from China and Japan. In doing so it illuminates the complex cultural history of flowering plants, and brings a fresh approach to this perennially fascinating subject.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 149) and index.