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Empire's Nature: Mark Catesby's New World Vision
The exhibition at the Queen's Gallery of the drawings for Mark Catesby's The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands was the culmination of a tour that took his drawings to Los Angeles, Houston, Williamsburg and Savannah. It was accompanied by Henrietta McBurney's handsome book-catalogue, Mark Catesby's Natural History of America, intelligently introduced by Amy Meyers of the Huntington Library. Both the exhibition and the book are testimony to the taste for natural history, and plants in particular, in the royal family of the eighteenth century. George III bought Catesby's original drawings in 1768, but the engraved plates of the original editions 30 years earlier were dedicated both to Queen Carolina and Princess Augusta: the two rival ‘garden queens’ of Kew in the previous generation.
Empire's Nature: Mark Catesby's New World Vision
The exhibition at the Queen's Gallery of the drawings for Mark Catesby's The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands was the culmination of a tour that took his drawings to Los Angeles, Houston, Williamsburg and Savannah. It was accompanied by Henrietta McBurney's handsome book-catalogue, Mark Catesby's Natural History of America, intelligently introduced by Amy Meyers of the Huntington Library. Both the exhibition and the book are testimony to the taste for natural history, and plants in particular, in the royal family of the eighteenth century. George III bought Catesby's original drawings in 1768, but the engraved plates of the original editions 30 years earlier were dedicated both to Queen Carolina and Princess Augusta: the two rival ‘garden queens’ of Kew in the previous generation.
Empire's Nature: Mark Catesby's New World Vision
Chambers, Douglas (author)
Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes ; 20 ; 257-258
2000-09-01
2 pages
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