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Additional authors

1. Webb, Brian.
2. Bawden, Edward, 1903-1989.

Description

1. 128 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm

Summary

1. This book draws on Edward Bawden's delightful illustrations, posters and linocuts of Kew Gardens made over 60 years. It presents a light-hearted social history of Kew, peopled with the many Hanoverian Kings, Queens and Princes who resided there, as well as courtiers such as the 3rd Earl of Bute, Joseph Banks Fulke Greville and their proteges including William Chambers, William Aiton, Fanny Burney and Sir William Hooker. Alongside Bawden's posters and linocuts, the book is illustrated with the contemporary caricatures of Thomas Rowlandson, George Cruikshank and James Gillray as well as botanical illustrations by Franz Bauer, Evelyn Dunbar and others. The book also reproduces in full Bawden's previously unpublished manuscript guide to Kew Gardens, drawn by the artist when he was just 19, and the redrawn illustrations and maps in Robert Herring's 1930 book Adam and Evelyn at Kew.

Alternative title

1. Kew Gardens

Subject

1. Bawden, Edward, 1903-1989
2. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew > In art
3. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew > History

Contents

1. Preface -- A general guide -- Historic Kew -- Adam & Evelyn at Kew -- Edward Bawden & Kew.

Call number

1. JQE 14-136

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Author

1. Skipwith, Peyton, 1939-

Title

1. Edward Bawden's Kew Gardens / Peyton Skipwith & Brian Webb.

Publisher

1. London, England : V & A Publishing in association with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2014.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Added author

1. Webb, Brian.
2. Bawden, Edward, 1903-1989.

ISBN

1. 9781851777792 (hardback)
2. 1851777792 (hardback)

Research call number

1. JQE 14-136