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An exhibition of original work from
‘Drawings of British Plants’, recognising the
spectacular achievement that Kew’s longest surviving
botanic artist has made in illustrating British plants.
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| Helleborus viridis
(subsp. pseudofluitans) |
Stella Ross-Craig began her career as a botanical artist
in 1929, working at Kew and the Royal Horticultural Society.
In total she has illustrated more than 3,000 species of flowering
plants in both pen and ink and in watercolour.
These illustrations have been selected from 'Drawings of British
Plants' which comprises 1,350 published illustrations drawn
between 1948 and 1973. It depicts every species of flowering
plant native to the British Isles (with the exception of grasses
and sedges), and is the single most useful illustrated account
of the British Flora ever produced
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