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Botanical Illustration from Chelsea Physic Garden (Hardcover)
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Botanical Illustration from Chelsea Physic Garden (Hardcover)
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Chelsea Physic Garden was founded by the Worshipful Society of
Apothecaries in 1673 as a resource providing plant material for the
training of apothecaries. For most of its existence, the Garden has
been a focus for botanists, taxonomists, students and
horticulturists both for employing their skills and in training the
next generation. These activities have been supported by the work
of plant illustrators. It is the purpose of this book to display
the work of talented late twentieth- and early twenty-first century
botanical artists, members of Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium
Society, whose explicit aim is to illustrate plants in cultivation
in the Garden. In 1995 the Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium
Society was co-founded by Margaret King and Wendy Page. It is a
group of artists, the first cohort of which had been studying for a
Diploma in botanical illustration at the English Gardening School
at Chelsea Physic Garden. Botanical Illustration from Chelsea
Physic Garden includes selected works from the garden's archive,
which now totals about 500 works.The seventy-eight illustrations
reproduced include one in pen-and-ink and three in graphite (lead
pencil), all examples of work by masters of their technique. Also
included is one work in coloured pencil which is, even on close
inspection, indistinguishable from the best water-colour painting.
The plates are accompanied by notes about the uses of the plants,
as well as the botanical name of the plant and its family.
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