Stories
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Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
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Plant portraits
The beautiful and mysterious illustrations in medieval herbals convey a wealth of knowledge about the plants they portray.
- Book extract
Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
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Book design, dissected
Gwen Smith talks to art director Peter Dyer about imagery, colour, type and staying true to the pages within.
Catalogue
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Botanical illustration / Ronald King.
King, Ronald, 1914-Date: 1978- Archives and manuscripts
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M0001402: Botanical illustration of Cinchona cariboca
Date: 20 November 1930Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/13/4Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
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M0001399: Botanical illustration of Cinchona angustifolia
Date: 20 November 1930Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/13/1Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
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M0001401: Botanical illustration of Cinchona brachycarpa
Date: 20 November 1930Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/13/3Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
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M0001398: Botanical illustration of Cinchona floribunda
Date: 20 November 1930Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/12/100Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive