Title: Abundant beauty
Description: In 1871, Marianne North, a brilliant artist with a keen interest in botany, set-forth to travel the world on a quest to paint indigenous plants in their natural habitat. Encouraged by her friend Charles Darwin, North travelled by boat, train, mule, foot and palanquin to every continent except Antarctica. She circled the globe twice over fifteen years and accumulated an extensive and valuable collection of more than eight hundred paintings.
Subjects: Travel, Botanical artists, Biography, Voyages, Dessinateurs de plantes, Biographies
Places: England, Angleterre
People: Marianne North (1830-1890)