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Official Guide to the Marianne North Gallery by Kew Royal Botanic Gardens (2010, Hardcover)
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Official Guide to the Marianne North Gallery. Author:North, Marianne. All of our paper waste is recycled within the UK and turned into corrugated cardboard. Book Binding:Paperback. Book Condition:VERYGOOD.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKEW Publishing
ISBN-101842464248
ISBN-139781842464243
eBay Product ID (ePID)79893557
Product Key Features
Book TitleOfficial Guide to the Marianne North Gallery
Number of Pages208 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2010
TopicLife Sciences / Botany, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, Subjects & Themes / Plants & Animals, European
IllustratorYes
GenreArt, Science
AuthorKew Royal Botanic Gardens
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight11.2 Oz
Item Length7.5 in
Item Width5 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal758.507442195
SynopsisMarianne North, an unmarried middle-aged Victorian lady of comfortable means, set off in 1891 on her first expedition to make a pictorial record of the tropical and exotic plants of the world. She produced more than 800 paintings which are housed in a special gallery at Kew. Republished after 85 years thisfacsimile of the 6th edition of the Official Guide to the North Gallery remains an instructive publication to the unique collection of paintings by Marianne North and the gallery.The pictures, painted by North in-situ in the countries indicated and arranged by her in the gallery, have hung in the positions she allocated for them since 1882. The guide does not just dwell on the beauty of the paintings; it also relates the plants and landscapes painted to Kew, its great glasshouses and museums. One hundred and thirty seven years on, it is hard to improve on the praise lavished by the Gardener's Chronicle 'the skilful dashing works of a true artist, which completely succeeds in showing Nature as she is' and the words of Sir Joseph Hooker who saw the paintings as a record of plants 'already disappearing or shortly to disappear before the axe and forest fire'., Marianne North, a Victorian adventuress, set out in 1871 on an ambitious expedition to make a pictorial record of the tropical and exotic plants of the world. In the course of her travels, Marianne North produced more than eight hundred paintings of plants, which are now housed in the gallery she had built at Kew Gardens. Republished after 85 years, the sixth edition of the official guide to the Marianne North gallery remains an instructive guide to the unique collection of paintings by Marianne North and her gallery in which they are placed.
