The first botanical illustration book traces back to Greek botanist, Pedanius Dioscorides, who published a book called De Materia Medica. But later, in the 18th century, ...

Otfried Baume, Alexander von Humboldt Botanical Illustrations, Prestel, 24pp, £19.99, $29.95 (pb) Book Shorts Painting Drawings Botanical Natural History Share ...

Smithsonian botanical illustrator, Alice Tangerini, has spent over 50 years turning plants from the museum’s botany collection into artistic compositions, each of which can take up to two weeks ...

Amy Pool was perusing a book on the history of botanical illustration when a citation for an 18th-century title caught her eye. A plant taxonomist at the Missouri Botanical Garden, Pool searched ...

Using an artist's tools and the skills of a scientist, Tangerini makes “art in the service of science.” Botanical illustrations by Alice Tangerini; photograph by Jennifer J. Hill. Photo ...

And making botanical illustrations for a patron is alive and well, she points out. Florilegia — documentation of all the plants growing in a specific garden — is a big thing right now, she says.

“The Gardener’s Botanical: An Encyclopedia of Latin Plant Names with More than 5,000 Entries” by Ross Bayton ($29.95, Princeton University Press): This 352-page hardcover book is a botanist ...

Botanical print collector and gardener Ruthie Frierson, a friend of the late botanical illustrator Margaret Stones, displays correspondence the two woman shared through the years at her home in ...

A Curious Herbal, the first modern edition of Elizabeth Blackwell’s 18th-century botanical guide, grants her the recognition that she has long deserved. Close Sign In ...