Ehret's Flowering Plants (Victoria and Albert Natural History Illustrators) - Hardcover

Saunders, Gill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810908875 ISBN 13: 9780810908871

Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc, 1988

Synopsis

Book by Saunders, Gill

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Eighteenth century watercolorist Georg Dionysius Ehret loved drawing, not growing, plants. When apprenticed to his uncle, a gardener, young Ehret considered this period "three years of 'slavery' and continued throughout to draw plants at every opportunity," writes Saunders. A curator at London's Victoria and Albert Museum, Saunders offers a concise introductory essay on the artist, who publicized Carl Linnaeus's system of botanical classification and approached plant illustration "like a painter of human portraits . . . improving upon nature, smoothing out the imperfections and showing his subjects at their best." The 40 color plates, from the museum's collection, range from the common carnation to newly discovered exotics like the American Turkscap lily. Beautifully reproduced, they convey the extraordinary quality of Ehret's watercolors.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0810908875
• ISBN 13: 9780810908871
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 63