Botanical Art from India
The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Collection
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Published:1st Aug '17
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
The links between the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and India go back for two and a half centuries. Surgeons who had studied botany at the Garden laid the foundations of western knowledge of the Indian flora. Supplementing their written plant descriptions with botanical drawings, commissioned from Indian artists, they established collections which survive today at Edinburgh, the Natural History Museum and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. This book tells the story of these collections, reproducing a selection of 86 exquisite, original drawings – including examples made in all three of the Presidencies (administrative units) of British India (Bombay, Bengal and Madras), between 1770 and 1860.
ISBN: 9781910877227
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128 pages