Book ID: 98591
Official Guide to the Marianne North Gallery
6th rev. ed. 2009. illus. maps. col. pls. XXXVI, 162 p. 8vo. Hardcover.
Marianne North, a Victorian adventuress, set out in 1871 on an ambitious expedition to make a pictorial record of the tropical andexotic plants of the world. In the course of her travels, Marianne Northproduced more than eight hundred paintings of plants, which are nowhoused in the gallery she had built at Kew Gardens. Republished after85 years, the sixth edition of the official guide to the Marianne Northgallery remains an instructive guide to the unique collections of paintings by her and the gallery in which they are placed.