Digital botanical illustration allows a fascinating close-up view of the plant world and, while scientifically based, it is also full of beauty for all to enjoy. Developed from the long tradition of botanical art, from the early herbals, through lithographs and engravings, to the meticulously hand-painted watercolours of today, this new digital work aims to combine the best of the old with the demands and technologies of the new. The background to this work was an award in 2003, from the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust, which part-funded a project to investigate digital techniques for botanical illustration. The first illustrations of this type were created in November 2003. Each composite illustration is a comprehensive plant portrait of a single taxon or plant species, showing the diagnostic and, where space allows, also the characteristic features of that plant. All parts and dissections within it are shown to scale by a metric scale bar, and where appropriate, the notable parts are colour referenced. In addition, each illustration contains a time bar showing the month/s of flowering, botanical symbols, and a title block, in which the currently accepted Latin plant name, author for the name, any common name/s and the accepted botanical family name are displayed. The works are largely, but not totally, photographic. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
Bobbi Angell – botanical artist, printmaker and gardener - graduated with a degree in Botany from The University of Vermont in 1977 and has been drawing plants ever since. Her richly detailed pen and ink illustrations appear in a wide variety of scholarly and commercial publications and her copper etchings are often featured in exhibits. Primarily a scientific illustrator for botanists at The New York Botanical Garden and other academic institutions, she has reached a popular audience through John Scheepers Kitchen Garden and Van Engelen seed catalogs, The New York Times garden column and its compilation books, and the popular North Hill Garden memoirs, Our Life in Gardens and To Eat: A Country Life. ... [Information of the supplier]
At the top of the page you see two search boxes at the right. The white one is for entering scientific names, the grey one for vernacular ones. You must enter at least 3 letters in one of them to use the search facility. When you use a single entry in the search box and click the search button you will get an alphabetical list of matching taxa. If you click a taxon you will get the thumbnails of illustrations, alphabetically grouped by genus. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]