Images
from Nature
Drawings
and Paintings from the Library of the Natural History
Museum
Images
from Nature presents a selection
of 70 works of art from the Natural History Museum's extensive
collections of nearly half a million watercolours, drawings
and prints. It introduces some of these little known works
to a wider audience, as the collections are kept behind
the scenes and rarely exhibited. The images portrayed
give a fascinating insight into how the animal, mineral
and plant worlds have been depicted over the last three
centuries. They have great aesthetic value and are of
considerable scientific and historical importance.
Key
features
- Attractively
presented works of art
- Rare
glimpse of unexhibited treasures
- Preview
of future 'collections' based publications
- Includes
items from the 'behind the scenes' Museum collection
Contents
Foreword, Introduction, Note on Sir Joseph
Banks, Arthur Harry Church, Claude Gibney Finch-Davies,
Dutch Paintings Collection, John Lindley, William Bartram,
Claire Dalby, John Fullwood, Henry Bone, Brian Hargreaves,
George Raper, Thomas Watling and The Port Jackson Painter,
Amadeo John Engel Terzi, Georg Dionysius Ehret, Ferdinand
Lucas Bauer, Henry Walter Bates, Franz Bauer, Alfred Waterhouse,
Edward Lear, William Young, Bryan Kneale, Olivia Fanny
Tonge, Sydney Parkinson, Keith West, William MacGillivray.
About
the authors
The specialist librarians of the Natural
History Museum made this selection of artworks and provided
the background information to the artworks and artists.
The authors are all qualified librarians who have worked
for a number of years with the cataloguing and preservation
of these valuable collections. Introduction by Christopher
Mills, Head of Collections and Reader Services, and Foreword
by Lord Palumbo.
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Specifications
ISBN:
0 565 09029 1
Price: £12.95
Format: Paperback
Size: 200 x 210 mm
Extent: 112 pp, full colour throughout
Published: January 1998
Subject classification: Nature art; art history
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