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The watercolours were painted for the book The Highgrove Florilegium, a two-volume set of botanical prints depicting the plants, vegetables, fruit and trees grown in the garden at Highgrove. This publication is a culmination of seven years of work by 72 of the leading botanical artists and is accompanied by text compiled by botanists at the Natural History Museum and was published in 2008 and ...
The Highgrove Florilegium, Watercolours Depicting Plants Grown in the Garden at Highgrove, 2 vol., NUMBER 155 OF 175 SETS, SIGNED BY PRINCE CHARLES on the preface leaf, 124 colour lithographed botanical plates by 72 artists, each with limitation number in pencil, text decorations and endpaper designs by Richard Shirley Smith, publisher's dark red half goatskin gilt by Stephen Conway, after a ...
3 giu 2023 · Fellow Society member and botanical artist, Sally Strawson, who has contributed to The Highgrove Florilegium, recording the plants growing around King Charles’ Highgrove home, and The ...
23 apr 2016 · Florilegia, or collections of botanical illustrations, date back hundreds of years to the first herbals in the 15 th century. Interest in florilegia has flourished anew in the 21 st century and it was suggested to the Prince of Wales that a florilegium of the plants at Highgrove would be both a celebration of his garden and an archival record of the plant collection.
11 set 2016 · While the height of botanical art was from the 1740’s to the 1840’s and coincides with the great voyages of discovery, there is today what has been described as a modern renaissance of botanical painting. More than 70 artists, from the United Kingdom and abroad, participated in the Highgrove Florilegium creating 124 paintings in total.
The Highgrove Florilegium is the first Royal Florilegium in the UK. It contains botanically accurate watercolour paintings of the plants grown in the garden of Highgrove near Tetbury in Gloucestershire - which has been the country home of the Prince of Wales since 1980. The Wildflower Meadow. What was particularly poignant for me was seeing the ...
