Old and new South American botanical art
Subtitle: the Mutis & Shirley Sherwood collections
By: M. Pilar de San Pío Aladrén, Shirley Sherwood ; [revision of the Mutis Collection text, José Luis Fernández Alonso ; translation of de Mutis Collection text, Duncan Gilson]
Contributors: Sherwood, Shirley; Mostazo Fernández, Yara; Fernández Alonso, José Luis; Real Jardín Botánico (Spain)
Publisher: Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Madrid
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9788497441001
Subjects: Exhibitions; Art collections; Botanical illustration; Flowers in art; Plants in art; Botanical artists
Other titles: Mutis & Shirley Sherwood collections; Mutis and Shirley Sherwood collections; South American botanical art
Notes: "Exhibited in the Shirley Sherwood Gallery at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2010."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 172) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Gonzalo Nieto Feliner; title: Introduction / Shirley Sherwood; title: Mutis and the botanical expedition. Jose Celestino Mutis in Spain (1732-1760) ; Mutis in Colombia awaiting permission for the expedition (1760-1783) ; From the start of the expedition to Mutis's death (1783-1808) ; The artists' school ; History of the drawings ; Publication of the flora ; Exhibitions for the bicentenary ; The Mutis drawings ; Artists of the botanical expedition / M. Pilar de San Pío Aladrén and Yara Mostazo Fernández; title: The Mutis Collection / Yara Mostazo Fernández; title: The Shirley Sherwood Collection / Shirley Sherwood; title: Old and new works compared / Shirley Sherwood.