Botanical Illustration in China and India

Artists from Asia brought skill and style to the drawings they made for European plant collectors.

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July-August 2013

Volume 101, Number 4
Page 300

DOI: 10.1511/2013.103.300

The botanical explorations that paralleled European colonialism in the late 17th and early 18th centuries resulted in a great deal of plant illustration and collecting by artists from Britain, France and other countries. Less well known are the paintings and illustrations done by Asian artists during that time.

Image courtesy of the board and trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

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