The art of botanical illustration
By: Wilfrid Blunt and William T. Stearn
Contributors: Stearn, William T. (William Thomas), 1911-2001, author; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Edition: [New edition].
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9781851497607
Subjects: Flowers in art; Botanical illustration
Notes: "First published in 1950 by Collins, London . ... Revised edition by William T. Stearn published in 1994 by the Antique Collectors' Club.  This edition published in 2015"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-349) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. The botanical artist; title: 2. The legacy of antiquity; title: 3. The rebirth of naturalism; title: 4. The first printed herbals; title: 5. The herbals of Brunfels and Fuchs; title: 6. The decline of the woodcut; title: 7. Some flower painters of the late sixteenth century; title: 8. The early etchers and metal engravers; title: 9. Rabel, Robert and Aubriet; title: 10. Holland: the flower-piece and the Dutch influence; title: 11. Some botanical books of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; title: 12. The age of Ehret; title: 13. West and East; title: 14. The age of Redouté; title: 15. The botanical magazine; title: 16. Kilburn, Sowerby and Syndenham Edwards; title: 17. Francis and Ferdinand Bauer; title: 18. Thornton and the temple of flora; title: 19. England in the early nineteenth century; title: 20. Walter Fitch: the age of the lithograph; title: 21. John Ruskin: a digression; title: 22. The second half of the nineteenth century; title: 23. The twentieth century; title: 24. Epilogue: five hundred years of botanical illustration.