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Botanical illustration

Index Botanical illustration

Botanical illustration is the art of depicting the form, color, and details of plant species, frequently in watercolor paintings. [1]

78 relations: Alfred Parsons (artist), Alice Tangerini, Alison Marjorie Ashby, American Society of Botanical Artists, Anna Maria Garthwaite, Anne Henslow Barnard, Annie Chambers Ketchum, Anton Hartinger, Antonia Ridge, Atropa belladonna, Banksia rosserae, Biological illustration, Botanical illustrator, Celia Rosser, Della Purves, Douglas Walker (artist), Dracontium, Dracontium spruceanum, Drimia elata, Dutch Society for Botanical Artists, Emily Cumming Harris, Emily Stackhouse, Eryngium maritimum, Filago vulgaris, Flora Graeca, Florilegium, Gray Foy, Haemanthus coccineus, Harriet Morgan, Highgrove Florilegium, Highgrove House, Hilda Murrell, History of botany, Hypericum calycinum, Icones Plantarum, Illustration, Ilma Grace Stone, Inverleith House, Jan Kaplický, Jasminum officinale, Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, John Banister (naturalist), John Lhotsky, Kings Park, Western Australia, Lee and Kennedy, Lewis Roberts (naturalist), List of Australian botanical illustrators, List of Irish botanical illustrators, Louis Prang, Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, ..., Mary Agnes Chase, Mary Lawrance, Microtis media, Musée et jardins botaniques cantonaux, Nepenthes abgracilis, Nepenthes alzapan, Nepenthes cid, Nepenthes extincta, Nepenthes kitanglad, Nepenthes leyte, Nepenthes micramphora, Pierre-Joseph Redouté, Regina Olson Hughes, Renealmia alpinia, Sara Plummer Lemmon, Sarah Drake, Shirley Sherwood, Sowerbaea, Stella Ross-Craig, Still life, Theodore Payne Foundation, Victoria amazonica, Watercolor painting, Wildwood (novel), Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt, William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings, William T. Stearn, 2001 Birthday Honours. Expand index (28 more) »

Alfred Parsons (artist)

Alfred William Parsons RA (2 December 1847 – 16 January 1920) was an English artist: illustrator, landscape painter and garden designer.

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Alice Tangerini

Alice R. Tangerini (born April 25, 1949) is an American botanical illustrator.

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Alison Marjorie Ashby

Alison Marjorie Ashby MBE (7 February 1901 – 12 August 1987) was an Australian botanical artist and plant collector.

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American Society of Botanical Artists

The American Society of Botanical Artists (ASBA) is the principal United States society for those who practice and appreciate contemporary botanical art.

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Anna Maria Garthwaite

Anna Maria Garthwaite (b. Harston, Leicestershire, 14 March 1688 – October 1763) was an English textile designer known for creating vivid floral designs for silk fabrics hand-woven in Spitalfields near London in the mid-18th century.

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Anne Henslow Barnard

Anne Henslow Barnard (1833–1899) was a 19th-century botanical artist.

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Annie Chambers Ketchum

Annie Chambers Ketchum (religious name, Sister Amabilis; November 8, 1824 - November 27, 1904) was an American educator, lecturer, and writer.

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Anton Hartinger

Anton Hartinger (6 August 1806 – 7 January 1890) was an Austrian artist who specialized in still life paintings of fruit and flowers.

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Antonia Ridge

Antonia Florence Ridge (7 October 1895 – 18 June 1981) was a Dutch-born writer and broadcaster, who wrote the English lyrics for Friedrich-Wilhelm Möller's popular song, "The Happy Wanderer" (originally "Der fröhliche Wanderer" or "Mein Vater war ein Wandersmann"), and others of his works.

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Atropa belladonna

Atropa belladonna, commonly known as belladonna or deadly nightshade, is a perennial herbaceous plant in the nightshade family Solanaceae, which includes tomatoes, potatoes, and aubergine.

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Banksia rosserae

Banksia rosserae is a recently described species of Banksia.

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Biological illustration

Biological illustration is the use of technical illustration to visually communicate the structure and specific details of biological subjects of study.

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Botanical illustrator

A botanical illustrator is a person who paints, sketches or otherwise illustrates botanical subjects.

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Celia Rosser

Celia Elizabeth Rosser (born 1930) is an Australian botanical illustrator, best known for having published The Banksias, a three-volume series of monographs containing watercolour paintings of every Banksia species.

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Della Purves

Rodella Anne Purves (6 July 1945 – 17 January 2008) was a British botanical artist.

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Douglas Walker (artist)

Douglas Walker (born 1958) is a Canadian painter living and working in Toronto, Ontario.

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Dracontium

Dracontium is a genus of flowering plants similar to those of Amorphophallus.

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Dracontium spruceanum

Dracontium spruceanum is a tropical flowering plant species of the Amazon rainforest understory.

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Drimia elata

Drimia elata is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae.

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Dutch Society for Botanical Artists

The Dutch Society for Botanical Artists (Vereniging van Botanisch Kunstenaars Nederland), further referred to as “VBKN”, is the Dutch society which brings together botanical artists and is dedicated to enhancing the quality of work and to promoting the public awareness of botanical illustration in the Netherlands.

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Emily Cumming Harris

Emily Cumming Harris (28 March 1836–5 August 1925) was one of New Zealand's first professional women painters.

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Emily Stackhouse

Emily Stackhouse (15 July 1811 – 1 April 1870) was a 19th-century Cornish botanical artist and plant collector.

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Eryngium maritimum

Eryngium maritimum, the sea holly or seaside eryngo, is a species of Eryngium in the plant family Apiaceae and native to most European coastlines.

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Filago vulgaris

Filago vulgaris or Filago germanica,.

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Flora Graeca

Flora Graeca was a publication of the plants of Greece in the late 18th century, resulting from a survey by John Sibthorp and Ferdinand Bauer.

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Florilegium

In medieval Latin a (plural) was a compilation of excerpts from other writings.

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Gray Foy

---- Gray Foy (1922–2012) was a mid twentieth-century American artist who created a visionary body of drawings from 1941 to 1975.

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Haemanthus coccineus

Haemanthus coccineus, the blood flower, blood lily or paintbrush lily, is a species of flowering plant in the amaryllis family Amaryllidaceae, native to Southern Africa.

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Harriet Morgan

Harriet Morgan (1830 – 16 August 1907) née Scott was one of 19th century Australia’s most prominent natural history illustrators and, along with her sister Helena Scott, was possibly one of the first professional female illustrators in Australia.

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Highgrove Florilegium

The Highgrove Florilegium is a two-volume book of botanical illustrations recording plants in the garden of Charles, Prince of Wales at Highgrove House in Gloucestershire.

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Highgrove House

Highgrove House is the family residence of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, situated south west of Tetbury in Gloucestershire, England.

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Hilda Murrell

Hilda Murrell (3 February 1906 – 23? March 1984) was a British rose grower, naturalist, diarist and campaigner against nuclear power and nuclear weapons.

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History of botany

The history of botany examines the human effort to understand life on Earth by tracing the historical development of the discipline of botany—that part of natural science dealing with organisms traditionally treated as plants.

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Hypericum calycinum

Hypericum calycinum is a species of prostrate or low-growing shrub in the flowering plant family Hypericaceae.

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Icones Plantarum

Icones Plantarum is an extensive series of published volumes of botanical illustration, initiated by Sir William Jackson Hooker.

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Illustration

An illustration is a decoration, interpretation or visual explanation of a text, concept or process, designed for integration in published media, such as posters, flyers, magazines, books, teaching materials, animations, video games and films.

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Ilma Grace Stone

Ilma Grace Stone (1913 – 2001), née Balfe, was an Australian botanist who specialised in bryology.

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Inverleith House

Inverleith House is a historic house, now within the Royal Botanic Garden, in the suburb of Inverleith, in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Jan Kaplický

Jan Kaplický (18 April 1937 – 14 January 2009) was a world-renowned Neofuturistic Czech architect who spent a significant part of his life in the United Kingdom.

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Jasminum officinale

Jasminum officinale, known as the common jasmine or simply jasmine, is a species of flowering plant in the olive family Oleaceae.

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Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer

Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer (12 January 1636 – 20 February 1699) was a Franco-Flemish painter who specialised in flower pieces.

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John Banister (naturalist)

John Baptist Banister (1654 – May 1692) was an English clergyman and one of the first university-trained naturalists in North America.

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John Lhotsky

John Lhotsky (1795–1866) was a Galicia-born Austrian naturalist, lecturer, artist and author.

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Kings Park, Western Australia

Kings Park is a park located on the western edge of the central business district in Perth, Western Australia.

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Lee and Kennedy

Lee and Kennedy were two families of prominent Scottish nurserymen in partnership for three generations at the Vineyard Nursery in Hammersmith, west of London.

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Lewis Roberts (naturalist)

Lewis Roberts, OAM, (born 1950) is a distinguished naturalist and botanical illustrator.

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List of Australian botanical illustrators

This is a list of botanical illustrators born or active in Australia.

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List of Irish botanical illustrators

This is a list of botanical illustrators born or active in Ireland.

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Louis Prang

Louis Prang (March 12, 1824 – September 14, 1909) was an American printer, lithographer, publisher, and Georgist.

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Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh

Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (5 November 1864 – 7 January 1933) was an English-born artist who worked in Scotland, and whose design work became one of the defining features of the "Glasgow Style" during the 1890s.

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Mary Agnes Chase

Mary Agnes Meara Chase (April 29, 1869 – September 24, 1963) was an American botanist who worked at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Smithsonian Institution.

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Mary Lawrance

Mary Lawrance (also known as Mary Kearse) (fl. 1794–1830) was a British botanical illustrator who specialized in flowers.

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Microtis media

Microtis media, commonly known as mignonette orchids are herbaceous plants of the family Orchidaceae and are endemic to the south–west of Western Australia.

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Musée et jardins botaniques cantonaux

The Cantonal Botanical Museum and Gardens (French: Musée et jardins botaniques cantonaux, MJBC) in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland, comprises the museum and botanical garden in Lausanne, as well as the botanical garden, La Thomasia, in the Alps near the town of Bex.

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Nepenthes abgracilis

Nepenthes abgracilis is a tropical pitcher plant native to the Philippines.

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Nepenthes alzapan

Nepenthes alzapan is a tropical pitcher plant native to the Philippine island of Luzon.

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Nepenthes cid

Nepenthes cid is a tropical pitcher plant native to the Philippines.

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Nepenthes extincta

Nepenthes extincta is a tropical pitcher plant native to the Philippines.

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Nepenthes kitanglad

Nepenthes kitanglad is a tropical pitcher plant native to the Philippines.

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Nepenthes leyte

Nepenthes leyte is a tropical pitcher plant native to the Philippines.

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Nepenthes micramphora

Nepenthes micramphora is a tropical pitcher plant known only from Mount Hamiguitan on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines.

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Pierre-Joseph Redouté

Pierre-Joseph Redouté (10 July 1759 – 19 June 1840), was a painter and botanist from Belgium, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers at Malmaison.

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Regina Olson Hughes

Regina Olson Hughes (1895-1993) was an American scientific illustrator in Botanical Art.

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Renealmia alpinia

Renealmia alpinia is a flowering plant species native to the Americas, where it grows from southern Mexico through much of South America, though not in the Southern Cone.

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Sara Plummer Lemmon

Sara Allen Plummer Lemmon (September 3, 1836 – January 15, 1923) was an American botanist.

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Sarah Drake

Sarah Anne Drake (1803–1857) was an English botanical illustrator who worked for John Lindley and collaborated with Augusta Innes Withers, Nathaniel Wallich and others.

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Shirley Sherwood

Shirley Angela Sherwood (born 1 July 1933) is a British writer, botanist and philanthropist.

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Sowerbaea

Sowerbaea is a small genus of perennial herbs which are endemic to Australia.

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Stella Ross-Craig

Stella Ross-Craig (19 March 1906 – 6 February 2006) was an English illustrator best known as a prolific illustrator of native flora.

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Still life

A still life (plural: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or man-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, etc.). With origins in the Middle Ages and Ancient Greco-Roman art, still-life painting emerged as a distinct genre and professional specialization in Western painting by the late 16th century, and has remained significant since then.

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Theodore Payne Foundation

The Theodore Payne Foundation for Wild Flowers and Native Plants — or TPF, is a private, non-profit organization founded in 1960 to promote the understanding and preservation of California native plants.

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Victoria amazonica

Victoria amazonica is a species of flowering plant, the largest of the Nymphaeaceae family of water lilies.

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Watercolor painting

Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also aquarelle (French, diminutive of Latin aqua "water"), is a painting method in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-based solution.

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Wildwood (novel)

Wildwood: The Wildwood Chronicles, Book 1 is a 2011 children's fantasy novel by The Decemberists' singer-songwriter Colin Meloy, illustrated by his wife Carson Ellis.

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Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt

Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt (1901–1987) was an art teacher, author, artist and curator of the Watts Gallery at Compton, Surrey (1959–83).

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William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings

The William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings consists of 477 watercolour botanical drawings of plants and animals of Malacca and Singapore by unknown Chinese (probably Cantonese) artists that were commissioned between 1819 and 1823 by William Farquhar (26 February 1774 – 13 May 1839).

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William T. Stearn

William Thomas Stearn (16 April 1911 – 9 May 2001) was a British botanist.

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2001 Birthday Honours

The Queen's Birthday Honours 2001 was announced on 16 June 2001 for the United Kingdom (including Northern Ireland), New Zealand (4 June), Australia (11 June), Barbados, Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and The Grenadines, Belize and Saint Christopher and Nevis on the occasion of the celebration of Her Majesty's Birthday.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botanical_illustration

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