Drawn from Life
Science and Art in the Portrayal of the New World
by Victoria Dickenson
320 pages· 1998· ISBN 9780802080738
About
An illustrated archeology of the imagination that reveals how artists and writers from the late 16th to the early 19th century, most of whom had never seen North America, portrayed the natural history and landscape of North America to European readers.
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