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The art of flowers / Jack Kramer ; photography by Eric Strachan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kramer, Jack, 1927-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Botanical illustration.
- Flowers in art.
- Physical Description:
- 175 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Watson-Guptill Publications, 2002.
- Summary:
- A magnificent took into 19th century botanical illustration by such renowned artists as Pierre Joseph Redoute, George Brookshaw, Jane Loudon, and others. Features scores of dazzling, rare reproductions and a special section of how-to-draw flower books from the 19th century.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Flowers for Everyone 10
- Glorious Flower Illustration 12
- Botany Books 16
- Florilegia 24
- The Golden Age of Botanical Art (c. 1820-60) 28
- Botanical Magazines and Periodicals 36
- The Craze in the United States 42
- Floral Volumes, Decorative Beauty 44
- Selected
- and Spectacular
- Flower Books 45
- The Language of Flowers 46
- Henry Gardiner Adams 54
- Clarissa W. Munger Badger 56
- Rebecca Hey 60
- John Ingram 62
- Frances Sargent Locke Osgood 63
- Frederic Shoberl 64
- Louisa Anne Meredith Twamley 66
- Robert Tyas 68
- Lady Caroline Catherine Wilkinson 72
- Mrs. Edward W. Wirt 74
- Language-of-Flowers Books from the Author's Collection 77
- Artists Explain How to Draw Flowers 78
- R. Ackermann 86
- James Andrews 90
- George Brookshaw 94
- Mrs. William Duffield 98
- Walter Hood Fitch 99
- Ada Hanbury 104
- F. Edward Hulme 106
- Jane Webb Loudon 108
- Henrietta Maria Moriarty 112
- Ethel Nisbet 114
- Mrs. E. E. Perkins 116
- Edward Pretty 117
- Pierre-Joseph Redoute 124
- George F. Rosenberg 130
- James Sowerby 131
- Patrick Syme 132
- A Gallery of Artists 136
- Pancrace Bessa 138
- Elizabeth Blackwell 140
- Sarah Anne Drake 142
- Lady Harriet Anne Thiselton Dyer 144
- Elsie Katherine Dykes 146
- Sydenham Edwards 148
- Georg Ehret 150
- Walter Hood Fitch 152
- Sir William Jackson Hooker 154
- Jane Webb Loudon 156
- The Misses Maund 158
- Frederick Polydore Nodder 160
- Anne Pratt 162
- Pierre-Joseph Redoute 164
- James Sowerby 166
- Pierre Jean Francois Turpin 167
- Augusta Withers 170.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-173) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0823003116
- OCLC:
- 49277282
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