{"id":16719,"date":"2025-08-07T12:03:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T19:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/?post_type=book&p=16719"},"modified":"2025-08-07T12:03:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T19:03:36","slug":"chilean-flora-through-the-eyes-of-marianne-north-1884","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/chilean-flora-through-the-eyes-of-marianne-north-1884\/","title":{"rendered":"Chilean Flora Through the Eyes of Marianne North, 1884"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"\"A most interesting book in the Miller Library is \u201cChilean Flora through the eyes of Marianne North 1884.\u201d\u00a0 Published in Chile in 1999, originally in Spanish, we have the English translation that is an account of the artist\u2019s visit to Chile, the last of her journeys.\u00a0 As authors Antonia Echenique (a Chilean historian) and Mar\u00eda Victoria Legassa (a Chilean sociologist) explain, her work was not previously well-known but, upon her visit, she \u201cattracted the attention of a number of contemporary Chilean intellectuals and scientists.\u201d<\/p>\n

An 1884 article by a Chilean official captures the local impact of North\u2019s work, as do her own journal entries.\u00a0 Essays written in 1999 discuss both the artistic and scientific merit of her work by a British art critic (\u201cits uniqueness that needs to be first recognized and celebrated\u201d) and a Chilean botanist (\u201conce again, art and science unite in the work of a single person\u201d).<\/p>\n

North\u2019s main interest in going to Chile was to see the forests of Araucaria araucana<\/em>, known In Chile as pehu\u00e9n<\/em>.\u00a0 It grows in Britain (and Seattle), but not with the splendor of its native land.\u00a0 Even North recognized how inappropriate was the use of the common name of \u201cMonkey Puzzle\u201d as it grows \u201cwhere there are no monkeys.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reviewed by: Brian Thompson on December 2, 2024<\/p>\n

Excerpted from the Winter 2025 issue of the Arboretum Bulletin<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. A most interesting book in the Miller Library is \u201cChilean Flora through the eyes of Marianne North 1884.\u201d\u00a0 Published in Chile in 1999, originally…<\/p>\n

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