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The Museum's Linnaean collection comprises approximately 12,000 items, with publication dates spanning over 300 years. Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) was a Swedish naturalist who became known as the father of taxonomy. Taxonomy, the practice of classification, creates order from the chaos of nature by allowing us to group all plants and animals ...
Nepalese drawings; Mysore drawings; Bengal drawings; Alexander Anderson (1748-1811) Manuscripts; Specimen collections. Around 40,000 specimens from the collection of Carl Linnaeus, purchased from the estate of the Society's first President, Sir James Edward Smith, as well as Smith's own herbarium. The library, correspondence and manuscripts of ...
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Dec 5, 2016 · Poetry, art, science, history. I just love beautiful stuff like this! So let me take a moment to share our artificial botanical illustrations study… Before embarking on our art project, we took a moment to talk about Carl Linnaeus, the scientist behind the classification of living things.
- Floras
- Voyages of Discovery
- Victorian Enthusiasm
By 1600, after the early woodblocked herbals, the process of engraving on metal allowed a finer delineation of every minute detail, revolutionising botanical illustration. Flora Londinensis (1777-87) by William Curtis is one of the most famous British floras listing all the plants within a ten-mile radius of London. An important early 19th century ...
Botanists accompanying the epic voyages of discovery in the 18th and 19th centuries were the first to record and collect the exotic plants encountered in the remote uncharted lands. For the first time Europeans saw pictures of exotic fruits such as pineapples, paw-paws and pomegranates. Examples in the collections include Banks' Florilegium and wor...
The Victorians brought about an immense enthusiasm for science. Engravings of newly introduced plants became widely available through journals and popular magazines, such as Carter's Floral Illustrations and Paxton's Floral Garden. With the discovery of Victoria regia, the giant water lily from the Amazon, there was much rivalry between the gardene...
The golden age of botanical illustration. Although the tulip craze collapsed when the speculation bubble burst in 1637, our fascination with plants and flowers didn’t. The Kings of France commissioned their best artists to paint the natural world. Around 7,000 vellums captured the huge variety of flowers popular at that time.
Jun 28, 2019 · Carl Linnaeus, known as the father of modern taxonomy, and botanical illustrator Georg Dionysius Ehret, famously used botanical illustration to classify and describe the structure of plants. In the early nineteenth century, Belgian painter and botanist Pierre-Joseph Redouté captured the magnificent plants in the garden of Napoleon Bonaparte ...
The Society was founded on, and still holds, the library, manuscripts and specimen collections of the Swedish taxonomist Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778). The Linnaean Collections were acquired from the widow of Carl Linnaeus in 1784 by Sir James Edward Smith, founder of the Linnean Society. Smith went on to found the Linnean Society so that Linnaeus ...
