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Empire's Nature: Mark Catesby's New World Vision (Published for the Omohudro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia)
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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.
Title: Empire's Nature: Mark Catesby's New World Vision (Published for the Omohudro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia)
ISBN Number: 0807847623
ISBN-13: 9780807847626
Location Published: The University of North Carolina Press: March 1999
Binding: Trade Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Categories: Art History/Theory
Seller ID: 445906
Empire's Nature: Mark Catesby's New World Vision (Published for the Omohudro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia)