Description
| Product ID: | 9781842465967 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | IT |
| Title: | James Sowerby |
| Subtitle: | The Enlightenment's Natual Historian |
| Authors: | Author: Paul Henderson |
| Page Count: | 336 |
| Subjects: | Nature in art, Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes, etc), Biography: science, technology and medicine, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Biography: science, technology & medicine, Natural history |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating James Sowerby (1757-1822) was an outstanding artist and natural historian, renowned for his discoveries and prodigious output of beautiful, scientific books of plants, fungi, animals, fossils and minerals, all during the age of Enlightenment in Great Britain. • First full biography of James Sowerby using some new, as well as extensive scholarly resources• Provides authoritative and enlightening accounts of how some of the most important botanical works were produced and used.• Covers the importance of botany at a time of much scientific development and the role of art in the development of taxonomy • Beautifully illustrated with Sowerby’s artwork, along with extracts from letters, manuscripts and publications involving natural historians |
| Imprint Name: | Kew Publishing |
| Publisher Name: | Royal Botanic Gardens |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2015-10-01 |