Empire's Nature: Mark Catesby's New World Vision - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0807824593 ISBN 13: 9780807824597

Casa editrice: Univ of North Carolina Pr, 1999

Riassunto

Completed in 1747, Mark Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands was the first major illustrated publication on the flora and fauna of Britain's American colonies. Together with hisHortus Britanno-Americanus (1763), which detailed plant species that might be transplanted successfully to British soil, Catesby'sNatural History exerted an important, though often overlooked, influence on the development of art, natural history, and scientific observation in the eighteenth century.
Inspired by a major traveling exhibition of Catesby's watercolor drawings from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, this collection of interdisciplinary essays considers Catesby's endeavors as a naturalist-artist, scientific explorer, experimental horticulturist, ornamental gardener, and early environmental thinker in terms of the interests held by the various, overlapping communities in which he functioned--particularly as those interests related to the British colonial enterprise.
The contributors are David R. Brigham, Joyce E. Chaplin, Mark Laird, Amy R. W. Meyers, Therese O'Malley, and Margaret Beck Pritchard.
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The contributors:
David R. Brigham (Worcester Art Museum)
Joyce E. Chaplin (Vanderbilt University)
Mark Laird (University of Toronto)
Amy R. W. Meyers (Huntington Library & Art Collections)
Therese O'Malley (National Gallery of Art)
Margaret Beck Pritchard (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)

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Original essays examine the broad influence of Mark Catesby?England·s explorer artist?on the devlopment of natural history, art, and scientific observation in the 18th-century.

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• Editore: Univ of North Carolina Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0807824593
• ISBN 13: 9780807824597
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 272
• Redattore: Meyers Amy R. W., Pritchard Margaret Beck, Catesby Mark, Nygren Edward J.