Introduction
1 The Origins of Botanical Art
Leonardo da Vinci
2 Early Works of the Sixteenth Century
Jacopo Ligozzi
3 Seventeenth-Century Florilegia
Dutch Flower Paintings
4 North American Plants
Linnaeus and Plant Classification
5 Travellers to the Levant
Maria Sybilla Merian
6 The Exploration of Russia and Japan
Les Vélins du Muséum
7 Botany Bay and Beyond
Sir Joseph Banks
8 The Golden Age in England
Mrs. Delany and her Paper Mosaicks
9 South American Adventures
Thornton’s The Temple of Flora, or Garden of Nature
10 The Golden Age in France
Empress Joséphine
11 Botanical and Horticultural Illustrated Journals
Henry C. Andrews
12 Early Chinese Plant Drawings
Père David and the French Missionaries
13 The Company School in India
The Story of Flora Danica 1761-1883
14 A New Era at Kew
George Maw
15 Victorian Travellers
Elwes and the Genus Lilium
16 Bringing China to Europe
Modern Florilegia
17 The Flowers of War and Beyond
Exhibiting Botanical Watercolours
18 Carrying on the Tradition
Index
Bibliography
Publishers’ Credits