Art

Item Description

An Epic Voyage, An Epic Collection.

Banks' Florilegium is a collection of copperplate engravings of plants collected by Sir Joseph Banks and Dr. Daniel Solander while they accompanied Captain James Cook on his voyage around the world between 1768 and 1771. Following the voyage, Banks commissioned a team of five artists to complete Sydney Parkinson's watercolors and then a team of eighteen skilled engravers who engraved the copper plates.

Beautiful line engraving by Charles White after Sydney Parkinson (1769). Peperomia leptostachya - native from Australia to Micronesia, Melanesia, Polynesia (including the Hawaiian Islands). One of the few native Hawaiian species to still be found occurring naturally in Lawai Valley. Collected on the island of Otaheite [Tahiti) in 1769 by Sir Joseph Banks and Dr. Daniel Solander.

A unique and rare experience awaits you for a private VIP Tour with Tim Flynn, NTBG's Herbarium Curator, of the Rare Book Room in the Juliet Rice Wichman Botanical Research Center (BRC) at NTBG's national headquarters on Kauai. 

The crown jewel of the Loy McCandless Marks Botanical Library are the hundreds of rare books, some of which date back 500 years! The Rare Book Room houses more than 20,000 books, journals, botanical prints, and archival materials. Original botanical art, including that prepared for use in the NTBG's scientific publications, illuminates and augments the botanical record and the holdings of the library.

VIP Tour for up to 4; mutually agreed time to be arranged (gift certificate expires 12/31/2022). *ALL GUESTS MUST BE VACCINATED

Plate 644 from set 99 of the Banks Florilegium. Only 116 sets (each with 743 plates) were produced; there are only 115 other copies in the world.
Mount size - H 74cm x W 57cm Plate size - H 46cm x W 30cm

 

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