Botanical Illustration Study Guide

Plate 68: Poinsettia Pulcherrima, from 'Floral Magazine', edited by Worthington George Smith (1835-1917), London, England, UK, 1873. Museum number NAL 48.A.42

General illustration

• Arber, Agnes, Herbals: their origin and evolution, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1938

• Archer, Mildred, Natural history drawings in the India Office Library, London: HMSO, 1972

• Barker, Nicholas, The Hortus Eystettensis : the bishop’s garden and magnificent book, London: British Library, 1994

• Bartlett, H,H, and H, Shohara, Japanese botany during the period of wood-block printing, Los Angeles: Dawsons Bookshop, 1961

• Blunt, Wilfrid and Sandra Raphael, The illustrated herbal, London: Frances Lincoln, 1975

• Blunt, Wilfrid and William T, Stearn, The art of botanical illustration, Woodbridge: Antique Collectors Club, 1994

• Calmann, Gerta, Ehret, flower painter extraordinary, Oxford: Phaidon, 1977

• Coats, Alice M, The book of flowers : four centuries of flower illustration, London: Phaidon, 1973

• Desmond, Ray, Wonders of creation, natural history drawings in the British Library, London: British Library, 1986

• Desmond, Ray, A celebration of flowers : two hundred years of Curtis’s botanical magazine, Kew & Twickenham: Royal Botanic Gardens; Collingridge, 1987

• Glory of the garden, London: Sotheby's, 1987

• Henrey, Blanche, British botanical and horticultural literature before 1800 ,,, , 3 vols, London: Oxford University Press, 1975

• Hulton, Paul, The work of Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, 2 vols, London: British Museum Publications,1979

• Hulton, Paul and Lawrence Smith, Flowers in art from east and west, London: British Museum Publications,1979

• Kaden, Vera, The illustration of plants and gardens 1500-1850, London: HMSO, 1983

• Mabey, Richard, The flowering of Kew : 350 years of flower painting from the Royal Botanic gardens, London: Century, 1988

• Pavord, Anna, The tulip, London: Bloomsbury, 1999

• Rix, Martyn, The art of botanical illustration, London: Bracken Books, 1989

• Saunders, Gill, Picturing plants : an analytical history of botanical illustration, London: Zwemmer; V&A, 1995

• Scrase, David, Flower drawings, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997

• Scrase, David, Flowers of three centuries : one hundred drawings and watercolours from the Broughton collection, Washington, DC: International Exhibitions Foundation, 1983

• Stearn, William T, Flower artists of Kew, London: Herbert, 1990

Other collections

66 Royal Hospital Road
London SW3 4HS
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7352 5646
http://www.chelseaphysicgarden.co.uk

Fitzwilliam Museum
Trumpington Street
Cambridge CB2 1RB
Telephone: +44 (0)1223 332900
Fax: +44 (0)1223 332923
http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk

Lindley Library, Royal Horticultural Society
80 Vincent Square
London SW1
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7821 3050
http://www.rhs.org.uk/libraries

Natural History Museum
Cromwell Road
London SW7 5BD
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7938 9306
Fax: 0207 938 9290
http://www.nhm.ac.uk

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh library
Inverleith Row
Edinburgh EH3 5LR
Telephone: +44 (0)131 552 7171
Fax: +44 (0)131 552 0382
http://www.rbge.org.uk

Royal Botanic Gardens library and archives
Kew, Richmond
Surrey TW9 3AE
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8332 5414
Fax: +44 (0)20 8332 5278
http://www.rbgkew.org.uk

Royal Collection
Windsor Castle, State apartments
Windsor, Berkshire SL4 1NJ
Telephone: +44 (0)1753 868286
http://www.royal.gov.uk/

Societies and related organisations

Society of botanical artists, estd.1985
Executive Secretary Mrs Pamela Henderson
1 Knapp Cottages, Wyke, Gillingham, Dorset SP8 4NQ
Telephone: +44 (0)1747 825718
Fax: +44 (0)1747 825718
Aim 'to paint and record for the benefit of art, botany, conservation & horticulture'

Last updated 30 July 2002.