The Golden Age of Flowers: Botanical Illustration in the Age of Discovery 1600-1800

by Celia Fisher

Book Overview

The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries witnessed a surge in the study of and interest in botanicals that led to some of the greatest books of plant illustration ever made, including such outstanding examples as the Hortus Eystettensis, work by Maria Sibylla Merian, Thornton's Temple of Flora, Banks's Florilegium, and Sibthorp's Flora Graeca. Culled from these masterpieces of botanical art, this lavishly illustrated new...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 071235820X
• ISBN13: 9780712358200
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: British Library
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 9.5"