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The Tradescants' Orchard
Barrie Juniper
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Description for The Tradescants' Orchard
Hardcover. A stunning, full-colour facsimile, this beautiful and fascinating book explores the mystery of why and how these beguiling watercolours came to be commissioned and made. Num Pages: 128 pages, 81 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; ACQ; AFC; AGNB; TVS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 309 x 200 x 17. Weight in Grams: 862.
In the early seventeenth century there was eager interest, among the leisured classes, in fruits from the Mediterranean and beyond, not least for the kitchen gardens and orchards of England’s grand houses. The volume of charming, vibrant, almost primitif watercolour paintings of orchard fruits on the branch, popularly known as ‘Tradescants’ Orchard’, is a precious and fragile relic of this era of broadening horticultural horizons. This manuscript, traditionally associated with the renowned plantsmen, the John Tradescants, was among the eclectic collections of Elias Ashmole (1617-1692), which came to form the basis of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Then, in ... Read more
In the early seventeenth century there was eager interest, among the leisured classes, in fruits from the Mediterranean and beyond, not least for the kitchen gardens and orchards of England’s grand houses. The volume of charming, vibrant, almost primitif watercolour paintings of orchard fruits on the branch, popularly known as ‘Tradescants’ Orchard’, is a precious and fragile relic of this era of broadening horticultural horizons. This manuscript, traditionally associated with the renowned plantsmen, the John Tradescants, was among the eclectic collections of Elias Ashmole (1617-1692), which came to form the basis of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Then, in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The Bodleian Library United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
853g
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781851242771
SKU
V9781851242771
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About Barrie Juniper
Barrie Juniper is Emeritus Reader in Plant Sciences at the University of Oxford and Fellow Emeritus of St Catherine's College, Oxford. Hanneke Grootenboer is a University Lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford.
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