The Bauers. Masters of Botanical Illustration. NEW. Muriel Fisher & Margaret Forde

Muriel Fisher & Margaret Forde

Jane Brown

Publication accompanied the exhibition with the same title at the Fitzwilliam Museum

Florilegium

are provided for each rose alongside a fine portrait of the bloom by photographer Georgianna Lane

The Bauers. Masters of Botanical Illustration. NEW. Muriel Fisher & Margaret FordeHans Walter Lack. The three Austrian brothers Joseph, Franz and Ferdinand Bauer are widely regarded as the most accomplished and capable botanical artists of all time. They were active during the golden age of botanical discovery in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This book describes their lives and their work. Franz Bauer was, for fifty years, the first resident artist based at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, whilst Ferdinand is