The Florilegium of Alexander Marshal in the collection of Her Majesty The Queen at Windsor Castle
by Prudence Leith Ross, with contributions from Henrietta McBurney
ISBN 1 902163 05 2, hardback, 392 Pages, 30 x 24½ cm (12” x 9½”)
The Florilegium of Alexander Marshal contains 159 folios of watercolours depicting more than 600 varieties of plants, insects, birds and animals and is the only known example of a flower book painted by an English artist in the seventeenth century.
This beautifully illustrated large format catalogue, which includes 160 full page colour plates, is the first in a series of four catalogues devoted to the Natural History drawings in the Royal Collection.
“Enchanting” Anna Pavord, The World of Interiors
“Beautifully produced and presented” Garden History Society News
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