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Book Mark Catesby s Nature Coloring Book

Download or read book Mark Catesby s Nature Coloring Book written by Arcturus Publishing and published by Royal Collection Trust. This book was released on 2020-08-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Mark Catesby s Natural History of America

Download or read book Mark Catesby s Natural History of America written by Henrietta McBurney and published by Merrell. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Natural History , the life work of the English naturalist and artist Markatesby (1682-1749), the most important precursor of Audubon, was the firstomprehensive study of the flora and fauna of the eastern seaboard of Northmerica. Published here for the first time are the original watercolor

Book The Curious Mister Catesby

    Book Details:
  • Author : E. Charles Nelson
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 2015-03-01
  • ISBN : 0820347264
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book The Curious Mister Catesby written by E. Charles Nelson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Treasured Drawings from Mark Catesby

Download or read book Treasured Drawings from Mark Catesby written by Adalene M. Wood and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Catesby was born and lived in England, but has become famous for the fine works he created on his trips to the American British colonies in the early 1700s. Mark was a naturalist, who risked much to explore, record and draw the species of flora and fauna he found in the wilds of the Carolinas, Florida and the Bahamas. The story here starts in the year 1722, when Mark traveled up the Ashley River, South Carolina with a guide and the simplest of equipment and gear. The reader can participate in the experience of Mark's keen observation by using colored pencils or crayons to complete the beautiful drawings, which were originally produced as etched drawings in the 1730s.

Book Empire s Nature

    Book Details:
  • Author : Amy R. W. Meyers
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2012-12-01
  • ISBN : 080783856X
  • Pages : 608 pages

Download or read book Empire s Nature written by Amy R. W. Meyers and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Catesby s Birds of Colonial America

Download or read book Catesby s Birds of Colonial America written by Alan Feduccia and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1999-02-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Book Illuminating Natural History

    Book Details:
  • Author : Henrietta McBurney
  • Publisher : Paul Mellon Centre
  • Release : 2021-06-22
  • ISBN : 9781913107192
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Illuminating Natural History written by Henrietta McBurney and published by Paul Mellon Centre. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Natural History of Carolina  Florida  and the Bahama Islands

Download or read book The Natural History of Carolina Florida and the Bahama Islands written by Mark Catesby and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1771. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Book Amazing Rare Things

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  • Author : David Attenborough
  • Publisher : Kales Press
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9780979845628
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Amazing Rare Things written by David Attenborough and published by Kales Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Favorite Wildflower Walks in Georgia

Download or read book Favorite Wildflower Walks in Georgia written by Hugh O. Nourse and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wildflower lovers across Georgia know Hugh and Carol Nourse through their popular slide lectures. Countless other enthusiasts have seen their glorious wildflower photographs in books and magazines. Here the Nourses draw on years of travel around the state to share their favorite places for seeing wildflowers. Of the many walks the Nourses have taken, these are the ones they return to most often because of the density or the unusual nature of the floral display. All twenty of these wildflower walks are on public land; everything you need to know about how to find them and what to do once you're there is included. Five walks are presented from each of Georgia's four geographic regions: Cumberland Plateau/Ridge and Valley (northwestern Georgia); Blue Ridge (northeastern Georgia); Piedmont (Georgia foothills and fall line); and Coastal Plain (all of Georgia below the fall line). For each walk, a scenic photo gives a hint of the locale's overall character. In addition, five of the wildflowers encountered on the walk are profiled with a photograph and a detailed description. All of the wildflowers on these walks are native to Georgia. A few are rare and endangered. Common plant names are used in the main text; the index lists both common and scientific names. Coverage of each walk includes directions and a trail map plus information about: flowering season peak flowering period flower habitats walk length and difficulty restroom availability applicable fees

Book Naturalists in the Field

Download or read book Naturalists in the Field written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 1039 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the personal narratives those who have struggled over the past five centuries and more to comprehend and to document the natural world, the progress of natural history from speculative pursuit to systematic science is here explored, contextualized and illustrated.

Book The natural history of Carolina  Florida  and the Bahama Islands

Download or read book The natural history of Carolina Florida and the Bahama Islands written by Mark Catesby and published by . This book was released on 1771 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bookshop Tours of Britain

    Book Details:
  • Author : Louise Boland
  • Publisher : Fairlight Books
  • Release : 2020-10-22
  • ISBN : 1912054531
  • Pages : 531 pages

Download or read book Bookshop Tours of Britain written by Louise Boland and published by Fairlight Books. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bookshop Tours of Britain is a slow-travel guide to Britain, navigating bookshop to bookshop. Across 18 bookshop tours, the reader journeys from the Jurassic Coast of southwest England, over the mountains of Wales, through England's industrial heartland, up to the Scottish Highlands, and back via Whitby, the Norfolk Broads, central London, the South Downs, and Hardy's Wessex. On their way, the tours visit beaches, castles, head down coal mines, go to whiskey distilleries, bird watching, hiking, canoeing, to stately homes, and the houses of some of Britain's best-loved historic writers—and, last but not least, a host of fantastic bookshops.

Book The Art of the Bird

    Book Details:
  • Author : Roger J. Lederer
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2019-09-25
  • ISBN : 022667519X
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book The Art of the Bird written by Roger J. Lederer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human history of depicting birds dates to as many as 40,000 years ago, when Paleolithic artists took to cave walls to capture winged and other beasts. But the art form has reached its peak in the last four hundred years. In The Art of the Bird, devout birder and ornithologist Roger J. Lederer celebrates this heyday of avian illustration in forty artists’ profiles, beginning with the work of Flemish painter Frans Snyders in the early 1600s and continuing through to contemporary artists like Elizabeth Butterworth, famed for her portraits of macaws. Stretching its wings across time, taxa, geography, and artistic style—from the celebrated realism of American conservation icon John James Audubon, to Elizabeth Gould’s nineteenth-century renderings of museum specimens from the Himalayas, to Swedish artist and ornithologist Lars Jonsson’s ethereal watercolors—this book is feathered with art and artists as diverse and beautiful as their subjects. A soaring exploration of our fascination with the avian form, The Art of the Bird is a testament to the ways in which the intense observation inherent in both art and science reveals the mysteries of the natural world.

Book Wildlife in America

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Matthiessen
  • Publisher : Penguin Group USA
  • Release : 1977
  • ISBN : 9780140047936
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Wildlife in America written by Peter Matthiessen and published by Penguin Group USA. This book was released on 1977 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic history of the rare, threatened, and extinct animals of North America is a dramatic chronicle of man's role in the disappearance of great and small species of our land. "Should be the number one source volume for everyone who embraces the philosophy of conservation".--Roger Tory Peterson. Illustrations throughout.

Book

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edwin Wolf
  • Publisher : The Library Company of Phil
  • Release : 2009-12
  • ISBN : 9781151454713
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book written by Edwin Wolf and published by The Library Company of Phil. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume: v.5-6 Publisher: Dublin Publication date: 1882 Subjects: Irish philology -- Societies, etc Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.