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Portraying plants: illustrations collections at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Marilyn Ward  and
John Flanagan
Marilyn Ward*
Affiliation:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AE, UK
John Flanagan*
Affiliation:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AE, UK
*
Email: [email protected]
Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

The Library & Archives at Kew hold one of the world’s greatest collections of botanical illustration, assembled over the last 200 years. A resource well-known to the natural history community, it contains much to interest art historians. Using this historically rich heritage our forward thinking includes acquisition of more contemporary items and the formulation of a digital strategy for 21st-century access and exploitation.

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Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , 2003 , pp. 22 - 28
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2003

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