Illuminating natural history : the art and science of Mark Catesby / Henrietta McBurney.

By:

McBurney, Henrietta [author.]

Material type: Text

text
still image

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781913107192
1913107191

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

508.09033 23

LOC classification:

QH31.C35 M33 2021

Contents:

Introduction -- 1. Cateby's World -- 2. Cateby's Life and Character -- 3. Cateby's Publications -- 4. Cateby as Artist -- 5. Cateby as Horticulturist -- Cateby as Naturalist -- Appendices -- Abbreviations and Manuscript Sources.

Summary: This book explores the life and work of the 18th-century English artist, explorer, naturalist, and author Mark Catesby (1683-1749). During Catesby's lifetime, science was poised to shift from a world of amateur virtuosi to one of professional experts. He worked against a backdrop of global travel that incorporated collecting and direct observation of nature. Catesby spent two prolonged periods in the New World--in Virginia (1712-19) and South Carolina and the Bahamas (1722-26)--which he documented in Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, the first large-format, color-plate book on the natural history of North America. Interweaving elements of art history, history of science, natural history illustration, painting materials, book history, paper studies, garden history, and colonial history, this volume brings together a wealth of unpublished images as well as previously unpublished letters by Catesby, with contemporary accounts of his collecting and encounters in the wild, and details of the materials and techniques of packing and transporting plants and animals across the Atlantic.

Holdings ( 1 )
Title notes ( 3 )

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Circulating Books	Pennsylvania Horticultural Society	New Books	QH41.C33 QH41.C33 M38 M38 2021 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		3182700022897

Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-328) and index.

This book explores the life and work of the 18th-century English artist, explorer, naturalist, and author Mark Catesby (1683-1749). During Catesby's lifetime, science was poised to shift from a world of amateur virtuosi to one of professional experts. He worked against a backdrop of global travel that incorporated collecting and direct observation of nature. Catesby spent two prolonged periods in the New World--in Virginia (1712-19) and South Carolina and the Bahamas (1722-26)--which he documented in Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, the first large-format, color-plate book on the natural history of North America. Interweaving elements of art history, history of science, natural history illustration, painting materials, book history, paper studies, garden history, and colonial history, this volume brings together a wealth of unpublished images as well as previously unpublished letters by Catesby, with contemporary accounts of his collecting and encounters in the wild, and details of the materials and techniques of packing and transporting plants and animals across the Atlantic.