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Indian Forester, Scottish Laird & The Cleghorn Collection (2-Volume Set)

Art / Photobook Biography / Memoir Out of Print
By: Henry J Noltie(Author), Charles WJ Withers(Foreword By), Simon Milne(Foreword By)
500 pages, 289 colour & b/w photos and colour & b/w illustrations 216 colour & 102 b/w illustrations, 4 b/w maps
Indian Forester, Scottish Laird & The Cleghorn Collection (2-Volume Set)
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  • Indian Forester, Scottish Laird & The Cleghorn Collection (2-Volume Set) ISBN: 9781910877128 Hardback Aug 2016 Out of Print #229141
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A new two-part work on Indian environmental history and botanical art. Can also be bought separately.

Hugh Francis Clarke Cleghorn (1820–1895) was one of the many remarkable Scottish surgeons who worked for the East India Company, but who used an official posting as a base for research upon India's rich flora, and recording it visually in drawings made by Indian artists. His particular interest was in useful plants, which led to the major work in the field of forest conservancy for which he is best remembered. Indian Forester, Scottish Laird offers a definitive biography of Cleghorn's life and work placing it in the latter days of the Scottish Enlightenment, both in the field of applied and useful knowledge, and the documentation of natural resources in both words and pictures.

After Cleghorn's death his outstanding collection of drawings, and books relating to forestry and botany, was divided between the University of Edinburgh and what became the National Museum of Scotland. The latter share was transferred to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) in 1940, whereupon it was reunited with his substantial Indian herbarium that had been given in 1896. At this point Cleghorn became, if posthumously, one of the most significant benefactors in the Garden's 300-year history – books dating back to 1582, and around 3000 exquisite botanical drawings. In The Cleghorn Collection, more than 200 of the drawings from the Cleghorn Collection are reproduced, in colour, for the first time. These include drawings from nature, copies based on European prints, and Nature Prints made from herbarium specimens. They are the work of several South Indian artists and of pupils of the pioneering Madras School of Art.

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Art / Photobook Biography / Memoir Out of Print
By: Henry J Noltie(Author), Charles WJ Withers(Foreword By), Simon Milne(Foreword By)
500 pages, 289 colour & b/w photos and colour & b/w illustrations 216 colour & 102 b/w illustrations, 4 b/w maps
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