Julia Trickey: Tulip. This month, a notable exhibition opens at Timothy Langston Fine Art & Antiques in Belgravia, London to coincide with the Chelsea Flower Show. The exhibition includes forty-eight works from leading female botanical illustrators: a 21st century continuation of that delightful – and historic – scientific art form. Botanical illustration is one of […]
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Further to my blog the other day here is a link to the marvellous Cobbe collection. In the collection there are some exceptional versions of well known works. The portrait by Van Dyck of the Countess of Southampton is a reduced variation of his full length at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. They are both […]
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These seaweed presses would have been collected by an amateur botanist during a study of marine plant life in the late 18th century. At this time there was considerable interest in the natural world which ultimately led to scientists such as Darwin to stumble upon the great theory surrounding evolution in the mid 19th century. […]
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