{"id":16718,"date":"2025-08-07T11:57:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T18:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/?post_type=book&#038;p=16718"},"modified":"2025-08-07T11:59:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T18:59:20","slug":"marianne-north-the-kew-collection","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/marianne-north-the-kew-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Marianne North: The Kew Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marianne North (1830-1890) was one of the most famous women botanical illustrators of any era.\u00a0 Born in Britain, she traveled the world, visiting every continent to paint the native plants, many unknown to European science at the time.\u00a0 She worked in situ with oil paints and often recorded both humans and animals associated with her subject.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-16712 wp-img alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-3-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"178\" height=\"188\" \/>Her visits were not rushed; staying in one place for a long time, including a year or more each in Brazil, India, and Australasia.\u00a0 She came near our region in 1875 while painting the coast redwoods (<em>Sequoia sempervivums<\/em>) in northern California.<\/p>\n<p>North\u2019s most famous legacy is the gallery at Kew Gardens near London devoted exclusively to her work and containing over 800 of her paintings.\u00a0 This collection is illustrated in the 2019 book \u201cMarianne North: The Kew Collection\u201d that includes the paintings\u2019 captions written by the artist.<\/p>\n<p>I have not seen the gallery, but the book is similarly organized by geographical areas.\u00a0 This allows the viewer to appreciate the diversity of plants and landscapes on a global scale.\u00a0 As noted by Christopher Mills in the Introduction, the paintings are \u201can increasingly important visual record of where many, now rare, plants grew in the past and how landscapes have changed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by: Brian Thompson on December 2, 2024<\/p>\n<p>Excerpted from the Winter 2025 issue of the <em>Arboretum Bulletin<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marianne North (1830-1890) was one of the most famous women botanical illustrators of any era.\u00a0 Born in Britain, she traveled the world, visiting every continent to paint the native plants, many unknown to European science at the time.\u00a0 She worked in situ with oil paints and often recorded both humans and animals associated with her subject. Her visits were not rushed; staying in one place for a long time, including a year or more each in Brazil, India, and Australasia.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/marianne-north-the-kew-collection\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marianne North: The Kew Collection<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[],"class_list":["post-16718","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/16718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=16718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}