Botanical Prints: Bibliography & Resources
Books, documentaries, and scholarly resources
Books
1950
The Art of Botanical Illustration
The classic survey of the subject, tracing botanical illustration from antiquity to the twentieth century; later revised with William T. Stearn.
1995
Picturing Plants: An Analytical History of Botanical Illustration
A critical history that places botanical images within the science and technology of their time.
2012
Picturing the Book of Nature
A study of how Fuchs, Gessner, and other sixteenth-century authors used images in printed books of natural history.
2007
Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis
A narrative biography of Merian and her journey to Suriname.
1995
Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives
A historian's study that includes a chapter on Maria Sibylla Merian.
1971
The Compleat Naturalist: A Life of Linnaeus
A biography of Linnaeus with a particular focus on the visual culture of natural history.