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Elizabeth Gwillim (1763–1807) and her sister Mary Symonds (1772–1854) produced over two hundred watercolours depicting birds, fish, flowers, people, and landscapes around Madras (now Chennai). The sisters'detailed letters fill four large volumes
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Victoria Dickenson
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Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science. 75:507-513
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Jennifer Garland, Victoria Dickenson
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Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science. 75:599-626
For almost 40 years, the British jurist and Fellow of the Royal Society Taylor White (1701–1772) actively engaged in commissioning artists to paint plants and animals for his ‘paper museum’. White amassed a collection of almost 1000 drawings of
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Victoria Dickenson
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Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science. 75:515-541
Taylor White (1701–1772) was by profession a barrister and judge, active in public life in London. His life as a jurist and as the long-serving treasurer of the Foundling Hospital is documented in the records of his public appointments and in his o
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Victoria Dickenson
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Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science.
In 1924 Casey Wood, founder of the Blacker Wood Library at McGill University in Montreal, acquired a large portfolio of paintings of Indian birds from an antiquarian dealer in London, England. In addition to 121 watercolours of birds, the portfolio c
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Victoria Dickenson
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Gastronomica. 20:69-78
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Victoria Dickenson
The use of images as evidence in historical writing has been largely neglected by historians, though recent interest in the importance of visualization in scientific literature has led to a reappraisal of their value. In Drawn from Life, Victoria Dic
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Victoria Dickenson
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Cheap Street
Drawn from Life: Science and Art in the Portrayal of the New World
Drawn from Life: Science and Art in the Portrayal of the New World
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https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526131706.00005
https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526131706.00005
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Victoria Dickenson
What is it about the small fruits of field and wood that encourage rapture? These gifts of the earth—flagrant in hedgerows, carpeting the forest floor or coloring tablelands—are so ubiquitous as to be commonplace and yet so extraordinary that we