Brent Elliott
Biographic Data
| ID | 5635587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brent Elliott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brent |
| FAMILY NAME | Elliott |
| SIGNATURE | ELLIOTT B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Horticultural Society |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The world of the Renaissance herbal
This chapter contains sections titled: Herbals and the Development of Botany Botanical Art in the Herbals Publishing History of the Herbals Herbals and the Garden The Decline of the Herbal
The world of the Renaissance herbal
A herbal is a treatise on medicinal plants; the intended audience was traditionally one of doctors and apothecaries, and the purpose was to enable them to know which plants to use for medical purposes, and how to identify them in the field. In the 1530s appeared the first herbals for which artists were employed to draw plants from real specimens, rather than simply copying older illustrations – which, as a result of generations of manuscript copy…
Alton Towers
A Brief Guide to the Use of Picture Postcards in Garden History
The Royal Horticultural Society
This title is an official history of the Royal Horticultural Society from its beginnings to the present day
The Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens
Italian Memorial Sculpture 1820-1940
Italian monumental sculpture of the 19th and early 20th centuries is among the most remarkable ever made, and remains surprisingly unknown. Its emotional charge is caught in this collection of specially taken photographs, while the scholarly texts analyse the iconographic, cultural and art historical background to the works
The Victorian Celebration of Death
The genesis of Victorian attitudes to death the beginnings of reform and the first great cemeteries in Britain more cemeteries crisis, uncertainty and change more private, and some public, cemeteries the rise of cremation funerals, ephemera and mourning royal funerals the end of the Victorian era
Flower Shows in Nineteenth-Century England
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Sir Joseph Hooker is remembered as an eminent Victorian botanist and one of Charles Darwin's closest collaborators. Many gardeners and lovers of rhododendrons know of his plant collecting expedition in the Himalayas, but few are aware of his participation in Sir James Clark Ross's epic voyage to Antarctica in 1839-43, of his to Syria and Lebanon in 1860, to the Atlas Mountains in Morocco in 1871, and to the Rockies and California in 1877. At some…
Historical Revivalism in the Twentieth Century
Gardens of Empire
Gardens of the Georgian empire the growth of the empire's gardens the botanic station experiment the running of the imperial network taming the wilderness - the colonial botanic garden the colonial curator postscript. Appendices: botanic gardens and stations of the British empire, pre-1902 botanic gardens of the United Kingdom, pre-1902 foreign botanic gardens, pre-1902 foreign colonial botanic gardens and stations, pre-1902
The Country House Garden from the Archives of Country Life, 1897-1939
The Art and Architecture of Freemasonry
An outline of some of the history of the Craft the important legends the Renaissance period and Freemasonry the Great Prototype Masonic design and architecture Sethos and the Egyptian rites Elysian fields cemeteries, monuments and mausolea
Victorian Gardens
Rhetoric and Roses
A Preliminary Bibliography for Garden History in Canada
On the Laying out, Planting, and Managing of Cemeteries
Mosaiculture
A Celebration of Death
Gardens of Empire
Gardens of the Georgian empire the growth of the empire's gardens the botanic station experiment the running of the imperial network taming the wilderness - the colonial botanic garden the colonial curator postscript. Appendices: botanic gardens and stations of the British empire, pre-1902 botanic gardens of the United Kingdom, pre-1902 foreign botanic gardens, pre-1902 foreign colonial botanic gardens and stations, pre-1902
The world of the Renaissance herbal
A herbal is a treatise on medicinal plants; the intended audience was traditionally one of doctors and apothecaries, and the purpose was to enable them to know which plants to use for medical purposes, and how to identify them in the field. In the 1530s appeared the first herbals for which artists were employed to draw plants from real specimens, rather than simply copying older illustrations – which, as a result of generations of manuscript copy…
The world of the Renaissance herbal
This chapter contains sections titled: Herbals and the Development of Botany Botanical Art in the Herbals Publishing History of the Herbals Herbals and the Garden The Decline of the Herbal
The Victorian Celebration of Death
The genesis of Victorian attitudes to death the beginnings of reform and the first great cemeteries in Britain more cemeteries crisis, uncertainty and change more private, and some public, cemeteries the rise of cremation funerals, ephemera and mourning royal funerals the end of the Victorian era
A Celebration of Death
Mosaiculture
On the Laying out, Planting, and Managing of Cemeteries
A Preliminary Bibliography for Garden History in Canada
Rhetoric and Roses
Victorian Gardens
The Art and Architecture of Freemasonry
An outline of some of the history of the Craft the important legends the Renaissance period and Freemasonry the Great Prototype Masonic design and architecture Sethos and the Egyptian rites Elysian fields cemeteries, monuments and mausolea
The Country House Garden from the Archives of Country Life, 1897-1939
Gardens of Empire
Gardens of the Georgian empire the growth of the empire's gardens the botanic station experiment the running of the imperial network taming the wilderness - the colonial botanic garden the colonial curator postscript. Appendices: botanic gardens and stations of the British empire, pre-1902 botanic gardens of the United Kingdom, pre-1902 foreign botanic gardens, pre-1902 foreign colonial botanic gardens and stations, pre-1902
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Sir Joseph Hooker is remembered as an eminent Victorian botanist and one of Charles Darwin's closest collaborators. Many gardeners and lovers of rhododendrons know of his plant collecting expedition in the Himalayas, but few are aware of his participation in Sir James Clark Ross's epic voyage to Antarctica in 1839-43, of his to Syria and Lebanon in 1860, to the Atlas Mountains in Morocco in 1871, and to the Rockies and California in 1877. At some…
Historical Revivalism in the Twentieth Century
The Victorian Celebration of Death
The genesis of Victorian attitudes to death the beginnings of reform and the first great cemeteries in Britain more cemeteries crisis, uncertainty and change more private, and some public, cemeteries the rise of cremation funerals, ephemera and mourning royal funerals the end of the Victorian era
Flower Shows in Nineteenth-Century England
Alton Towers
A Brief Guide to the Use of Picture Postcards in Garden History
The Royal Horticultural Society
This title is an official history of the Royal Horticultural Society from its beginnings to the present day
The Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens
Italian Memorial Sculpture 1820-1940
Italian monumental sculpture of the 19th and early 20th centuries is among the most remarkable ever made, and remains surprisingly unknown. Its emotional charge is caught in this collection of specially taken photographs, while the scholarly texts analyse the iconographic, cultural and art historical background to the works
The world of the Renaissance herbal
A herbal is a treatise on medicinal plants; the intended audience was traditionally one of doctors and apothecaries, and the purpose was to enable them to know which plants to use for medical purposes, and how to identify them in the field. In the 1530s appeared the first herbals for which artists were employed to draw plants from real specimens, rather than simply copying older illustrations – which, as a result of generations of manuscript copy…
The world of the Renaissance herbal
This chapter contains sections titled: Herbals and the Development of Botany Botanical Art in the Herbals Publishing History of the Herbals Herbals and the Garden The Decline of the Herbal
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