Ferdinand Bauer
Ferdinand Bauer Ferdinand Bauer (1760-1821) is generally recognised as the finest late 18th / early 19th century botanical artist. He was appointed Natural History Draughtsman, on the recommendation of Sir Joseph Banks, to Captain Mathew Flinder’s circumnavigation of Australia in HMS Investigator (1801-1803). As an obsessive perfectionist, he engraved his own plates from his own…
Read MoreThe Trinity Apocalypse
The Trinity Apocalypse Written in the mid-13th Century, The Trinity Apocalypse is the first and most extraordinary Apocalypse, representing the culmination of Gothic book illumination. As a prophecy about the end of time and the last judgement, the story and illustrations are emotive and dramatic, and yet made more powerful by the way in which…
Read MoreThe Joseph Banks’ Florilegium
The Joseph Banks’ Florilegium “Every blockhead does that; My grand tour shall be one round the whole globe”Joseph Banks in response to his family’s suggestion that he undertake the traditional Grand Tour of Italy and the sites of classical antiquity. Joseph Banks (1743-1820), a multi-talented and indefatigable man, (later President of the Royal Society for…
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The Corpus Christi Apocalypse The Most Lavishly Illustrated Apocalypse of the Gothic Era. An unusual combination of the Revelation of St. John (The Apocalypse) , Paul’s Visions of Hell, as well as a transcript of the English Coronation Order used at the coronation of Edward II. It is believed this work was commissioned as one…
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