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A contemporary of Redoute, Franz Bauer (1758-1840) has been considered by many experts to be the greatest of all botanical artists. Yet this book is the first to gather together and reproduce any collection of his work. Until now, with a few exceptions, his paintings of orchids and his many hundreds of studies of other plants, have lain hidden away in a few institutions, most notably the Natural History Museum in London and the University of Gottingen in Germany. Bauer was born in Austria, but lived and worked for fifty years at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, where he was employed by Sir Joseph Banks as resident draughtsman. The Kew collection developed rapidly during this period and gave Bauer an unrivalled opportunity of studying new plants as they flowered for the first time. He became fascinated in particular by orchids and used his microscopic skill to explore and portray their detailed structure. Sixty-three superb colour reproductions of almost all his completed orchid paintings, including many beautiful enlargements of flowers, here exemplify his artistic genius. They represent European species as well as introductions from North America, Australia and the Tropics. The com

Author

Joyce Stewart and William T. Stearn

Publisher

Timber Press, Incorporated

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780881922431

Subjects

Science, Stem