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The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and The Bahama Islands: Containing the figures of Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, Insects, and Plants. Revised by Mr. Edwards, of the Royal College of Physicians, London 1771
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Mark Catesby English Naturalist March 24, 1683 – December 23, 1749
Naturalist, Artist, Horticulturalist
The Royal Society of London "the most magnificent work...since the art of printing has been discovered" (Mortimer, 1748)
funding for 2nd trip
First trip arrived April 23, 1712 stayed seven years
Second trip in 1722 stayed four years
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29 years old -First trip to Williamsburg, Virgina to visit his sister's family
Later Family members with similar talents include Gertrude Jekyll - formally trained at South Kensington School of Art. In her career, she designed 400 gardens, authored 13 books, and contributed to over 1,000 articles.
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John Ray The foremost English naturalist (his systems would dominate natural history until the adoption of Linnaean classification
During those seven years he gained and extensive knowledge of New World flora and fauna with a collection of drawings never seen by English naturalists.
William Sherard eminent English botanist who searched for naturalist to send to America to document the "living wonders"
Funded by the Royal Society and a dozen backers Catesby set out on his second journey and landed in Charleston, South Carolina in 1722
book has three editions and took 20 years to publish first book - he was both author and illustrator with 220 beautiful plates
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specimens of plants were sent to gardener Thomas Fairchild back in London. More plants were sent to London that had been sent from all over the world ever before in history.
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Thomas Jefferson cited Catesby in the table of North American birds his included in his Notes on the State of Virgina.
Lewis and Clark studied Catesby Natural History.
His name is immortalized in many America organisms.
Our bullfrog is named Rana catesbeiana. Four reptiles, a number of plants, a bear, and an eel.
The original watercolors are housed into books and shelved in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle.
Research Questions: How do the art of collecting and documenting encourage a conservancy of our environment?
What I want to know more about:
his self training of making the plates and his life back in Europe during the 20 years of working on getting his work published