Plant and Floral Studies for Artists and Craftspeople

by W. G. Paulson Townsend

Overview

Remarkably broad in its applications, this helpful reference covers a wide variety of plants. More than 100 precise drawings of flowers, leaves, buds, and growth patterns are provided for such plants as the anemone, arbutus, broad bean, bell-flower, briar rose, campanula, canterbury bell, dahlia, and lily; a detailed narrative provides descriptions of physical features and general botanical information for each plant.
Invaluable for making stencils, needlework canvases, and other floral design projects, this thoroughly illustrated, comprehensive guide will be a boon to amateur and professional artists, art students, and crafters.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780486148670
Publisher:	Dover Publications
Publication date:	07/16/2012
Series:	Dover Art Instruction
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	735,233
File size:	18 MB
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Table of Contents

Acanthus (Spinosa)
Alstræmeria
Anemone
Apple
Arbutus (or Strawberry tree)
Bean (Broad)
Bell-Flower (Nettled-leaved or Campanula)
Bell-Flower (Canterbury)
Bind-Weed
Briar Rose (Small-leaved sweet)
Burdock
Campanula (or Nettle-leaved Bell-Flower)
Canterbury Bell
Cape Gooseberry
Clematis (Wild) or Traveller's Joy
Columbine (White)
Convolvulus (or Bind-weed)
Crane's-Bill (Meadow)
Dahlia
Dandelion
Day Lily
Delphinium (or Larkspur)
Evening Primrose
Everlasting Pea
Fuchsia
Grass (Small Hard)
Great Bastard Woade
Great Flowered Ox-eye
Groundsel
Hazel Nut
Hip of Rose (Rosa)
Hip of Briar Rose
Hip of Rose (Rosa indica)
Holly (Sea)
Hollyhock (Single)
Honesty
Indian Corn (or Blew Turky Wheat)
Iris (German)
Iris (Yellow)
Larkspur (or Delphinium)
Lavender (Spike)
Lily (Day)
Lily (Lilium Croceum)
Lily (Martagon)
Lily (Red Lily of Constantinople, from Gerard's Herball)
Lily (Small, Alstræmeria)
Lily (White Water)
Lily (Yellow Water)
Magnolia
Marrow (Vegetable)
Meadow Crane's Bill
Medlar
Monk's Hood (or Common Wolf's-bane)
Nasturtium
Nut, Hazel
Ox-eye (Great Flowered)
Pea (Everlasting)
Pear
Persicaria (Pink)
Plantain (Broad-leaved)
Plantain (Buck's horn)
Plum
Poppy (Sea)
Potato
Primrose (Evening)
Rice
Rose, Hip of (Rosa indica)
Rose (Small-leaved sweet briar)
Sea Gilloflower (or Thrift)
Sea Holly
Sea Kale
Sea Poppy
Single Hollyhock
Strawberry Tree (or Arbutus)
Thrift (or Sea Gilloflower)
Tomato
Traveller's Joy
Various Treatment of Leaves for Surface Patterns
Vegetable Marrow
Vetch (Meadow)
Woade (Great Bastard)
Wolf's-bane (or Monk's Hood)
Wheat (Blew Turky) or Indian Corn
White Columbine
White Water Lily
Yellow Water Lily