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

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

Meyers, Amy R. W.
Pritchard, Margaret Beck

Paperback

Series: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American Histo

Sports GeneralColonial Period (1600-1775)Individual Artists

ISBN10: 0807847623
ISBN13: 9780807847626
Publisher: Univ Of North Carolina Pr
Published: Mar 15 1999
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.26
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.12 Depth: 9.28
Language: English
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 his Hortus Britanno-Americanus (1763), which detailed plant species that might be transplanted successfully to British soil, Catesby's Natural 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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