Originally published to accompany exhibitions of watercolors from the Royal Collection, which took place at Queen's Gallery (Edinburgh) and at Queen's Gallery (Buckingham Palace) in 2007.
Originally published: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007.
Previous ed. catalogued under Attenborough.
Foreword / Jane Roberts
Picturing the natural world / David Attenborough
Leonardo da Vinci : "All the works of Nature which adorn the world" / Martin Clayton
The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo : "With the true eye of a lynx" / Rea Alexandratos
Alexander Marshal : "His curious booke of flowers in miniature" / Susan Owens
Maria Sibylla Merian : "Great diligence, grace and spirit" / Susan Owens
Mark Catesby : " A genius for natural history" / Susan Owens.
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Amazing rare things : the art of natural history in the age of discovery. ISBN 9780979845628. Published by Kales Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
