"Four Seasons of Flowers is an illustrated volume that presents a selection of the manuscripts, herbals, and printed botanical texts from the Rare Book Collection at Dumbarton Oaks. Representing ...
Botanical illustrations offer mesmerizingly detailed and vividly colored glimpses of the natural world. Now, reports Hakim Bishara for Hyperallergic, more than 150,000 such artworks are freely ...
When 98-year-old botanical artist Margaret Stones died just after Christmas at her home in Australia, she left behind a body of work that will live on for years, especially in Louisiana. In 1951, with ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
Think of botanical illustrators, and you might envision a world of medieval herbalists, tulip or orchid collectors, or affluent young women of the 17th and 18th centuries making detailed drawings and ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Garden: Elements and Styles Garden expert and historian Toby Musgrave’s A-Z of garden style begins with ...
In the mid-19th century, Anna Atkins – a botanist and photographer from Kent – published the first book with photographs as illustrations, in a guide to British algae, ferns and flowering plants. Some ...