Description
Book SynopsisA visual compendium of botanical sketches, many specially photographed, providing a revealing insight into the immediate responses of artists encountering the glories of the plant world. While highly finished drawings and paintings frequently feature in histories of botanical art, the preparatory sketches, first impressions and creative thoughts on paper behind them are rarely seen and have often remained hidden and locked away. Botanical Sketchbooks brings these personal and vividly spontaneous records gloriously back into the light. In a series of biographical portraits organized thematically into four sections, the book illuminates a range of intriguing characters, from many different countries and cultures, including Germany, France, Italy, America, Australia, Japan and China. Sketchbooks proper are joined by notebooks, journals, albums, loose pieces of paper, works on vellum, manuscripts, letters, herbarium sheets and marginalia â even one drawing on the back of an envelop
Trade Review'A pure delight … filled with fascinating facts as well as exquisite drawings' - The Reckless Gardener
'Excellent' - Daily Telegraph
'A portfolio of beauty' - Times Higher Education
'A tour of not only the natural world, but also the human imagination' - House & Garden
Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Compulsion to Record
I. Making Art
II. Doing Science
III. Made on Location
IV. A Pleasing Occupation
