Portraying plants : botanical illustrators at the Chelsea Physic Garden / by Ruth Stungo.

London : Chelsea Physic Garden, [1995]

16 pages : illustrations ; 13 x 20 cm

Booklet to accompany an exhibition at the Chelsea Physic Garden, 23rd July-17th September 1995

Illustrations taken from the "Natural history of Jamaica" by Hans Sloane, engraved by Michael van der Gucht from drawings by Everard Kicklus

With brief sketches of the life and botanical work of Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), Elizabeth Blackwell (ca. 1700-1758), Joseph Miller (ca. 1670-1748), Jacob van Huysum (ca. 1685-1746), William Curtis (1746-1799), Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770), John Miller (1715-ca. 1790), and Thomas Moore (1821-1887)

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Dillons