{"product_id":"flora-indica-hardcover","title":"Flora Indica - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHenry Noltie\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eWilliam Dalrymple\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor the first time, Kew's recovered collections of Indian botanical art are brought together with the remarkable stories of the artists who painted them, the colonial context in which they were made, and their essential role in the development of botanical knowledge.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Featuring a representative selection of one hundred artworks from the previously fractured, uncatalogued, and largely inaccessible collection of over seven thousand Indian illustrations in Kew's archives, \u003ci\u003eFlora Indica\u003c\/i\u003e foregrounds the vital role of Indian artists in helping to advance both scientific knowledge and the aesthetics of botanical art. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The botanical watercolors, created between 1790 and 1850, were commissioned by British botanists, many of whom were employed by the East India Company to document India's rich plant diversity. The text by leading expert Henry Noltie reveals the lost stories of how these illustrations came to be, exploring the work of twenty Indian artists from eleven collections, with nineteen named individuals and thirty previously unseen illustrations. Noltie's extensive research into these hidden histories features plants native to South Asia alongside exotics introduced from the then-emerging international network of botanical gardens, taking readers on a journey that explores the environments in which these master artists worked. The style of the works represents a unique fusion of traditional Indian artistry and techniques with botanists' demands for naturalism and scientific specificity from an Indo-British perspective. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Presented with a foreword by art historian William Dalrymple, \u003ci\u003e Flora Indica\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates Kew's beautiful Indian botanical art collection, through which readers are invited to discover the important lost histories of Indian botanical art from the age of empire. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenry Noltie\u003c\/b\u003e worked at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh as a taxonomist, curator, and historian of its Indian collections. He specialized in the botanical drawings made by Indian artists for Scottish East India Company surgeons, on which he curated a series of exhibitions in the Garden's Inverleith House gallery. He has written lavishly illustrated monographs on the collections commissioned by Alexander Gibson in the Bombay Presidency and by Robert Wight and Hugh Cleghorn in the Madras Presidency. He is a research associate of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and the Natural History Museum, London. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 10.1 x 8.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 26, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48288860897529,"sku":"9781842468425","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/DT-cGEYV6J9781842468425.webp?v=1776253988","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/flora-indica-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}