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The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Wonderful Flowers Color-by-Numbers

Over 40 Beautiful Images

Walter Hood Fitch Pierre-Joseph Redouté

9781838576042
96 pages
Arcturus Publishing Limited
Overview

Kew Gardens receives more than 1.8 million visitors a year, making it one of the top 15 most visited attractions in the UK

The archive of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew is one of the most valuable botanical archives in the world.

Arcturus is among the world's leading publishers of coloring books for grown-ups with over 7 million copies sold in over 20 languages.

Over 720,000 Royal Botanic Kew titles sold.

Author Bio

The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew houses the largest and most diverse botanical collections in the world. The illustration archives contain more than 170,000 prints and drawings of plants. It is one of London's top tourist attractions and is a World Heritage Site.

Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840) has been called the greatest botanical illustrator of all time, known for iconic rose and lily designs. He was an official court artist of Marie Antoinette and his patrons included both of Napoleon's wives - Empress Joséphine and Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma.

Walter Hood Fitch (1817-1892) was a renown botanical illustrator, especially celebrated for his color lithograph plates featured in Curtis's Botanical Magazine.