Painting by Numbers: The Life and Art of Ferdinand Bauer

Painting by Numbers: The Life and Art of Ferdinand Bauer
ISBN-10
1742235220
ISBN-13
9781742235226
Series
Painting by Numbers
Category
Art
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
2018-06
Publisher
UNSW Press
Author
David J. Mabberley

Description

Ferdinand Bauer is seen by many as the greatest natural history painter of all time. Hand-picked by Joseph Banks, in 1801-1805 Bauer accompanied Matthew Flinders during his circumnavigation of Australia, and lived in New South Wales and Norfolk Island. Already celebrated in Europe for the precision and beauty of his paintings, it was during this commission that Bauer perfected the technique of sketching and color-coding in the field, and then colouring later -- painting by numbers. This fascinating new study of Bauer's work includes reproductions of never-before-published works from collections in Europe and Australia. Written by one of the world's foremost botanical scholars, Painting by Numbers reveals Bauer's innovative color-coding technique for the first time.

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