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Botanical Illustration

Poinsettia Pulcherrima, from 'Floral Magazine', 1873

Poinsettia Pulcherrima, from 'Floral Magazine', 1873

General Illustration

  • Arber, Agnes. Herbals : their origin and evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1938.
  • Archer, Mildred. Natural history drawings in the India Office Library. London: HMSO, 1972.
  • Barker, Nicholas. The Hortus Eystettensis : the bishop’s garden and magnificent book. London: British Library, 1994.
  • Bartlett, H.H. and H. Shohara, Japanese botany during the period of wood-block printing. Los Angeles: Dawsons Bookshop, 1961.
  • Blunt, Wilfrid and Sandra Raphael, The illustrated herbal. London: Frances Lincoln, 1975.
  • Blunt, Wilfrid and William T. Stearn, The art of botanical illustration. Woodbridge: Antique Collectors Club, 1994.
  • Calmann, Gerta. Ehret, flower painter extraordinary. Oxford: Phaidon, 1977.
  • Coats, Alice M. The book of flowers : four centuries of flower illustration. London: Phaidon, 1973.
  • Desmond, Ray. Wonders of creation, natural history drawings in the British Library. London: British Library, 1986.
  • Desmond, Ray. A celebration of flowers : two hundred years of Curtis’s botanical magazine. Kew & Twickenham: Royal Botanic Gardens; Collingridge, 1987.
  • Glory of the garden. London: Sotheby's, 1987.
  • Henrey, Blanche. British botanical and horticultural literature before 1800 ... . 3 vols. London: Oxford University Press, 1975.
  • Hulton, Paul. The work of Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues. 2 vols. London: British Museum Publications,1979.
  • Hulton, Paul and Lawrence Smith. Flowers in art from east and west. London: British Museum Publications,1979.
  • Kaden, Vera. The illustration of plants and gardens 1500-1850. London: HMSO, 1983.
  • Mabey, Richard. The flowering of Kew : 350 years of flower painting from the Royal Botanic gardens. London: Century, 1988.
  • Pavord, Anna. The tulip. London: Bloomsbury, 1999.
  • Rix, Martyn. The art of botanical illustration. London: Bracken Books, 1989.
  • Saunders, Gill. Picturing plants : an analytical history of botanical illustration. London: Zwemmer; V&A, 1995.
  • Scrase, David. Flower drawings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
  • Scrase, David. Flowers of three centuries : one hundred drawings and watercolours from the Broughton collection. Washington, DC: International Exhibitions Foundation, 1983.
  • Stearn, William T. Flower artists of Kew. London: Herbert, 1990.

Other Collections

Chelsea Physick Garden
66 Royal Hospital Road
London SW3 4HS
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7352 5646
http://www.chelseaphysicgarden.co.uk

Fitzwilliam Museum
Trumpington Street
Cambridge CB2 1RB
Telephone: +44 (0)1223 332900
Fax: +44 (0)1223 332923
http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk

Lindley Library, Royal Horticultural Society
80 Vincent Square
London SW1
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7821 3050
http://www.rhs.org.uk/libraries

Natural History Museum
Cromwell Road
London SW7 5BD
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7938 9306
Fax: 0207 938 9290
http://www.nhm.ac.uk

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh library
Inverleith Row
Edinburgh EH3 5LR
Telephone: +44 (0)131 552 7171
Fax: +44 (0)131 552 0382
http://www.rbge.org.uk

Royal Botanic Gardens library and archives
Kew, Richmond
Surrey TW9 3AE
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8332 5414
Fax: +44 (0)20 8332 5278
http://www.rbgkew.org.uk

Royal Collection
Windsor Castle, State apartments
Windsor, Berkshire SL4 1NJ
Telephone: +44 (0)1753 868286
http://www.royal.gov.uk/

Societies and Related Organisations

Society of Botanical Artists, estd.1985
Executive Secretary Mrs Pamela Henderson
1 Knapp Cottages, Wyke, Gillingham, Dorset SP8 4NQ
Telephone: +44 (0)1747 825718
Fax: +44 (0)1747 825718
Aim 'to paint and record for the benefit of art, botany, conservation & horticulture'

Last updated 30 July 2002.