Empire's nature : Mark Catesby's new world vision / edited by Amy R.W. Meyers & Margaret Beck Pritchard ; foreword by Graham S. Hood & Edward J. Nygren.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Myers, Amy R. W.

Pritchard, Margaret Beck.

Catesby, Mark, 1683-1749.

Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catesby, Mark, 1683-1749.

Catesby, Mark.

Catesby, Mark, 1683-1749--Influence.

Natural history--History--18th century.

Natural history.

Natural history illustration--History--18th century.

Natural history illustration.

History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 272 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture & the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press, [1998]

Summary:

Completed in 1747, Mark Catesby's ###Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands# was the first major illustrated publication on the flora and fauna of Britain's American colonies. Together with his ###Hortus Britanno-Americanus# (1763), which detailed plant species that might be transplanted successfully to British soil, Catesby's ###Natural History# exerted an important, though often overlooked, influence on the development of art, natural history, and scientific observation in the eighteenth century.

Inspired by a major traveling exhibition of Catesby's watercolor drawings from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, this collection of interdisciplinary essays considers Catesby's endeavors as a naturalist-artist, scientific explorer, experimental horticulturist, ornamental gardener, and early environmental thinker in terms of the interests held by the various, overlapping communities in which he functioned -- particularly as those interests related to the British colonial enterprise.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0807824593

0807847623

OCLC:

39108703