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Author Dickenson, Victoria.

Title Drawn from life : science and art in the portrayal of the New World / Victoria Dickenson.

Publication Info. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [1998]
©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 320 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-299) and index.
Summary "The use of images as evidence in historical writing has been largely neglected by historians, though recent interest in the importance of visualization in scientific literature has led to a reappraisal of their value. In Drawn from Life, Victoria Dickenson uncovers a vast pictorial tradition of 'scientific illustration' that reveals how artists and writers from the late sixteenth to the early nineteenth century portrayed the natural history and landscape of North America to European readers." "Dickenson undertakes a close reading of the images created by European artists, most of whom had never seen North America, and unravels the threads that linked the images to the curiosities and specimens that reached the Old World."--Jacket.
Contents Introduction: The Bittern from Hudson's-Bay -- Ch. 1. Emblematic Animals. Glimpses of the New World: Early Maps of North America. Marks and Emblems: Claiming a New World. Words into Pictures: The Su, the Bison, and the Simivulpa -- Ch. 2. Naturalism and the Counterfeit of Nature. Development of Naturalism. Representation as Counterfeit. Translating the Image: The Value of Repeated Pictorial Statement -- Ch. 3. Living Image. Cornut and the Canadensium Plantarum. Herbal Tradition. Sea of Simples. Book of God's Works: The Garden in Print. Cornut and Charlevoix -- Ch. 4. Redefinition of Landscape. ... a vast and prodigious Cadence of Water. Conventions of Landscape. Deer Park. Imposition of Order.
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Subject Natural history illustration -- Europe -- History.
Natural history illustration.
Europe.
History.
Natural history illustration -- North America -- History.
North America.
Art and science -- History.
Art and science.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1550-1820.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Dickenson, Victoria. Drawn from life. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1998 9780802042255 (DLC) 99176068 (OCoLC)39380718
ISBN 9781442674103 (electronic book)
1442674105 (electronic book)
0802042252 (hardcover)
0802080731 (paperback)
9780802042255
9780802080738