Selection of late 18th & early 19th century Indian botanical paintings recording the indigenous and introduced flora of the subcontinent, commissioned by the honourable East India Company and executed in watercolor by native artists, variously lent from the collections of the British Museum (Natural History), India Office Library, Linnean Society of London & Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew / with accompanying catalogue by Phyllis I. Edwards ... [et al.] ; pref. by John V. Brindle ; and introductory essays by Stuart Cary Welch & Miss Edwards.
By: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation.
Contributor(s): Edwards, Phyllis Irene.
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BookPublisher: Pittsburgh : Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1980Description: 72 p. : ill. ; b/w & col. plates, 24.8 cm.ISBN: 0913196290.Subject(s): East India Company -- Art patronage -- Exhibitions | Botanical illustration -- India -- History -- 18th century -- Exhibitions | Botanical illustration -- India -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions | Botany -- India -- Pictorial works -- Exhibitions | Watercolor painting, Indic -- ExhibitionsDDC classification: 582.09540221
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Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 70-71.
