During the early 19th century Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Garden commissioned Indian artists to illustrate the plants of the subcontinent. Almost a hundred of these exquisite paintings are reproduced in this volume, which describes the circumstances of their creation and profiles the botanists who ordered them. While some of the artists, such as the Telegu-speakers Rungiah and Govindoo in Madras, are known, many others, trained in the Mughal tradition, remain anonymous.
The links between the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and India go back for two and a half centuries. Surgeons who had studied botany at the Garden laid the foundations of western knowledge of the Indian flora. Supplementing their written plant descriptions with botanical drawings, commissioned from Indian artists, they established collections which survive today at Edinburgh, the Natural History Museum and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. This book tells the story of these collections, reproducing a selection of 86 exquisite, original drawings - including examples made in all three of the Presidencies (administrative units) of British India (Bombay, Bengal and Madras), between 1770 and 1860.
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