Author: Walter Faxon
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Languages : en
Pages : 22

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Author: Samuel Nicholson Rhoads
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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 26

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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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Author: Pamela Gilbert
Publisher: Merrell
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Abbot's studies of flora and fauna were essential to the European understanding of the natural world in the 18th and early 19th centuries.

Author: Janice Neri
Publisher: University Alabama Press
ISBN: 081732013X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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An archive of never-before-published illustrations of insects and plants painted by a pioneering naturalist During his lifetime (1751–ca. 1840), English-born naturalist and artist John Abbot rendered more than 4,000 natural history illustrations and profoundly influenced North American entomology, as he documented many species in the New World long before they were scientifically described. For sixty-five years, Abbot worked in Georgia to advance knowledge of the flora and fauna of the American South by sending superbly mounted specimens and exquisitely detailed illustrations of insects, birds, butterflies, and moths, on commission, to collectors and scientists all over the world. Between 1816 and 1818, Abbot completed 104 drawings of insects on their native plants for English naturalist and patron William Swainson (1789–1855). Both Abbot and Swainson were artists, naturalists, and collectors during a time when natural history and the sciences flourished. Separated by nearly forty years in age, Abbot and Swainson were members of the same international communities and correspondence networks upon which the study of nature was based during this period. The relationship between these two men—who never met in person—is explored in John Abbot and William Swainson: Art, Science, and Commerce in Nineteenth-Century Natural History Illustration. This volume also showcases, for the first time, the complete set of original, full-color illustrations discovered in 1977 in the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington, New Zealand. Originally intended as a companion to an earlier survey of insects from Georgia, the newly rediscovered Turnbull manuscript presents beetles, grasshoppers, butterflies, moths, and a wasp. Most of the insects are pictured with the flowering plants upon which Abbot thought them to feed. Abbot’s journal annotations about the habits and biology of each species are also included, as are nomenclature updates for the insect taxa. Today, the Turnbull drawings illuminate the complex array of personal and professional concerns that informed the field of natural history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These illustrations are also treasured artifacts from times past, their far-flung travels revealing a world being reshaped by the forces of global commerce and information exchange even then. The shared project of John Abbot and William Swainson is now brought to completion, signaling the beginning of a new phase of its significance for modern readers and scholars.

Author: James C. Kelly
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780963283634
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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Explores forty-four southern artists and eighty of their works.

Author: Vivian Rogers-Price
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Category : Animals in art
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Author: George A. Cevasco
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313036497
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 958

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Casting a wide net, this volume provides personal and professional information on some 445 American and Canadian naturalists and environmentalists, who lived from the late 15th century to the late 20th century. It includes explorers who published works on the natural history of North America, conservationists, ecologists, environmentalists, wildlife management specialists, park planners, national park administrators, zoologists, botanists, natural historians, geographers, geologists, academics, museum scientists and administrators, military personnel, travellers, government officials, political figures and writers and artists concerned with the environment. Some of the subjects are well known. The accomplishments of others are little known. Each entry contains a succinct but careful evaluation of the subject's career and contributions. Entries also include up-to-date bibliographies and information concerning manuscript sources.

Author: John Dent
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Author: John Brown
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Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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