Picturing Nature: American Nineteenth-Century Zoological Illustration

by Ann Shelby Blum

The panorama of American animal study, from the natural history of Alexander Wilson and John James Audubon through the development of professional zoology and its large institutions, provides the backdrop for Ann Blum's study of illustration styles. Over the course of the nineteenth century, the move from field natural history to museum and laboratory study together with changes in printing technology helped bring about a dramatic shift from realism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691085781
• ISBN13: 9780691085784
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 444 Pages
• Weight: 4.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 8.5" x 11.0"