The Flora Graeca Story : Sibthorp, Bauer, and Hawkins in the Levant
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0198548974
ISBN-13
9780198548973
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 5th, 1998
Print length
360 Pages
Weight
1,098 grams
Dimensions
21.40 x 28.60 x 2.80 cms
Product Classification:
History of art / art & design stylesDrawing & drawingsBotany & plant sciences
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Tells the story behind the making of the Flora Graeca, the monumental collection of drawings and descriptions of plants in mainland Greece and the Balkan Peninsula. Based on original diaries, letters and specimens, this work is illustrated with the original illustrations.
This is the first scholarly treatise that tells the remarkable story behind the making of the Flora Graeca, the monumental collection of illustrations and descriptions of plants in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey. First described by Dioskorides in the sixth century, the flora and fauna of the Levant was neglected until the gentlemen botanists-naturalists John Sibthorp and John Hawkins, accompanied by illustrator Ferdinand Bauer, travelled there. Bauer produced a class of paintings superior to anthing of their kind in existence then, and his work was to become one of the most valuable treasures of the University of Oxford. Based on the original diaries, letters, and specimens, this fine work is illustrated with the original illustrations which are still housed at the Department of Plant Sciences there.
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