Author: Arcturus Publishing
Publisher: Royal Collection Trust
ISBN: 9781838576516
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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From the cocoa plum tree to the ivory-billed woodpecker, this elegant coloring book features a selection of 40 nature illustrations by Mark Catesby. This celebrated British naturalist traveled to North and Central America in the 18th century to study the local flora and fauna. His bold and vibrant illustrations have become world-famous. This book is published in collaboration with the Royal Collection, one of the largest fine and decorative art collections in the world curated by the British royal family. Catesby's wildlife illustrations are housed within these prestigious archives, which are now appearing in a coloring book for the first time. Inside this book you will find an assortment of beautiful black-and-white designs to color, featured alongside the original full-color artworks. Familiarize yourself with spectacular wildlife while indulging in this relaxing pastime.
Author: E. Charles Nelson
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820347264
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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In 1712, English naturalist Mark Catesby (1683–1749) crossed the Atlantic to Virginia. After a seven-year stay, he returned to England with paintings of plants and animals he had studied. They sufficiently impressed other naturalists that in 1722 several Fellows of the Royal Society sponsored his return to North America. There Catesby cataloged the flora and fauna of the Carolinas and the Bahamas by gathering seeds and specimens, compiling notes, and making watercolor sketches. Going home to England after five years, he began the twenty-year task of writing, etching, and publishing his monumental The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands. Mark Catesby was a man of exceptional courage and determination combined with insatiable curiosity and multiple talents. Nevertheless no portrait of him is known. The international contributors to this volume review Catesby’s biography alongside the historical and scientific significance of his work. Ultimately, this lavishly illustrated volume advances knowledge of Catesby’s explorations, collections, artwork, and publications in order to reassess his importance within the pantheon of early naturalists.
Author: Amy R. W. Meyers
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 080783856X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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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.
Author: Alan Feduccia
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807848166
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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With this lovely and informative volume, Alan Feduccia preserves the pathbreaking work of Mark Catesby, the English naturalist and illustrator who founded natural history and bird art in America. First published by UNC Press in 1985, the book features all
Author: Adalene Wood
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781719321723
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Beautiful rendered colored pictures of the birds and plants as Mark Catesby first discovered them in 1722. Mark drew and painted wildlife in the Carolinas, Florida and the Bahama Islands. He was a botanist, artist and naturalist...who came 100 years earlier than John Audubon. See and enjoy here his drawings as the author has recreated them. The author has given the scientific names, the common English names and also the unique name that Mark Catesby first assigned to the birds and animals he discovered in the New World of 1722 early America.
Author: David Attenborough
Publisher: Kales Press
ISBN: 9780979845628
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Filmmaker Attenborough provides an introductory survey of the artistic representation of plants and animals through human history, beginning with Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and continuing on through the mid-1700s.
Author: Henrietta McBurney
Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre
ISBN: 9781913107192
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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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.
Author: Adalene M Wood
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 96
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This collection of 20 images for coloring is from Mark Catesby's unique book The Natural History of South Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands: Volume 2. Part 10 (Plates 81-100). Each image (for your coloring pleasure) is accompanied by a rendering (by author Adalene M. Wood) of the original Catesby drawing (with close color match). The unique style and clear detail that Mark Catesby brought to his drawn and painted "Plates" excites the student of nature in each of us. Included in this coloring book is also the accompanying text that Mark wrote about each tree, schrub, flower, moth or butterfly that he drew and painted. We can enjoy the journey that Mark Catesby took through the Low Country of the Carolinas and the Bahama Islands; we can color his remarkable images of the natural flora and lovely winged butterflies and moths that are here pictured. Enjoy the adventure that Mark Catesby made in the year of 1722 as you color his drawings! Each drawing is accompanied by the detailed and descriptive text that Mark Catesby wrote about each particular tree, shrub, moth or butterfly. Mark Catesby first published Plates 81-100 in December 1743.
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Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Mark Catesby
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5879564703
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Their descriptions in English and French.
