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Illuminating Natural History
Henrietta McBurney
其他書名
The Art and Science of Mark Catesby
出版Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2021
主題Art / GeneralArt / Individual Artists / MonographsArt / Subjects & Themes / Plants & AnimalsBiography & Autobiography / Environmentalists & NaturalistsHistory / Modern / 18th CenturyScience / Life Sciences / Biology
ISBN19131071919781913107192
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=BnzkzQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋The life and art of the 18th-century naturalist Mark Catesby, and his pioneering work depicting the flora and fauna of North America, are explored in vibrant detail



This book explores the life and work of the celebrated eighteenth-century English naturalist, explorer, artist and author Mark Catesby (1683-1749). During Catesby's lifetime, science was poised to shift from a world of amateur virtuosi to one of professional experts. Working against a backdrop of global travel that incorporated collecting and direct observation of nature, Catesby spent two prolonged periods in the New World - in Virginia (1712-19) and South Carolina and the Bahamas (1722-6). In his majestic two-volume Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands (1731-43), esteemed by his contemporary John Bartram as 'an ornament for the finest library in the world', he reflected the excitement, drama and beauty of the natural world. Interweaving elements of art history, history of science, natural history illustration, painting materials, book history, paper studies, garden history and colonial history, this meticulously researched volume brings together a wealth of unpublished images as well as newly discovered letters by Catesby, which, with their first-hand accounts of his collecting and encounters in the wild, bring the story of this extraordinary pioneer naturalist vividly to life.



Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art