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NATURAL HISTORY ILLUSTRATION

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 April 2005

Barbara Gates
Barbara Gates
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University of Delaware
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INTEREST IN VICTORIAN natural history illustration has burgeoned in recent years. Along with handsome, informative shows at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York (“Picturing Natural History”), at the American Philosophical Society (“Natural History in North America, 1730–1860”), and at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Melbourne (“Nature's Art Revealed”), the year 2003 saw an entire conference devoted to the subject in Florence, Italy. In 2004, the eastern United States was treated to two more fauna- and flora-inspired shows, both dealing specifically with nineteenth-century British science and illustration.

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REVIEW ESSAYS
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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , March 2005 , pp. 314 - 318
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© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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