Knowing nature : art and science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840 / edited by Amy R.W. Meyers, with the assistance of Lisa L. Ford.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Meyers, Amy R. W.

Ford, Lisa L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and science.

Natural history in art.

Natural history--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--18th century.

Natural history.

Natural history--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--19th century.

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Intellectual life--18th century.

Philadelphia (Pa.).

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Intellectual life--19th century.

Intellectual life.

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 417 pages : chiefly color illustrations, maps (some color) ; 32 cm

Other Title:

Art and science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2011.

Contents:

A protracted view : the relationship between mapmakers and naturalists in recording the land / Margaret Pritchard

Cultivated lives, cultivated spaces : the scientific garden in Philadelphia, 1740-1840 / Therese O'Malley

America's "ancient garden": the Bartram Botanic Garden, 1728-1850 / Joel T. Fry

This other Eden : the American connection in Georgian pleasure grounds, from shrubbery and menagerie to aviary and flower garden / Mark Laird

From nature and memory : William Bartram's drawings of North American flora and fauna / Amy Meyers

Cultivating interiors : Philadelphia, China, and the natural world / Janice L. Neri

Surprising oddness and beauty : textile design and natural history between London and Philadelphia in the eighteenth century / Alicia Weisberg-Roberts

The rattlesnake : Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the place of art in America / Alexander Nemerov

A world of uses : Philadelphia's contributions to useful knowledge in François-André Michaux's North American sylva / Lisa L. Ford

Hand-coloring vs. color printing in early-nineteenth-century natural history color-plate books / James N. Green

Illustrating nature : institutional support for art and science in Philadelphia, 1770-1830 / Robert McCracken Peck

The pious pursuit of agriculture : nature, culture, and exchange in Quaker-Seneca missions / Robert S. Cox

The pictorial legacy of Lewis and Clark / Kenneth Haltman

A world too much : democracy and natural history in Godman and Audubon / Alexander Nemerov.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Annual Literature Award - Nominee, 2013

Local Notes:

HSP credit line: Watercolor, Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences in Arch Street between 2 1/2 and Front North Side in 1817, David J. Kennedy watercolors [V61], call# K: 1-7 (page 54); Map, A Map of that Part of Bucks County, released by the Indians to the Proprietaries of Pensilvania in September 1737, as by a former agreement made with the said Indians by the Extent of a Mans Walk in a Day and a half and from thence by a right Line to Delaware River, Logan Family papers [0379] (page 15 and 16); Engraving, Magnolia virginiana by Mark Catesby, published in The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands, HSP in LCP, call# Am 1731 Cate Tz503 (page 166). ; Engraving, The Whip-poor-Will and the Ginseng or Nin-Sin of the Chinese by Mark Catesby, published in The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands, HSP in LCP, call# Am 1731 Cate Tz503 (page 200). ; Engraving, Pigeon Hawk by Mark Catesby, published in The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands, HSP in LCP, call# Am 1731 Cate Tz503 (page 257). ; Peter Collinson to John Bartram, Account for September 12, 1739, from accounts for March-August 1739, Bartram Family papers [0036]

ISBN:

9780300111040

0300111045

OCLC:

502676199

Publisher Number:

40020354914