A selection of late 18th & early 19th century Indian botanical paintings recording the indigenous and introduced flora of the subcontinent, commissioned by the honourable East India Company and executed in watercolor by native artists, variously lent from the collections of the British Museum (Natural History), India Office Library, Linnean Society of London & Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew A selection of late 18th & early 19th century Indian botanical paintings recording the indigenous and introduced flora of the subcontinent, commissioned by the honourable East India Company and executed in watercolor by native artists, variously lent from the collections of the British Museum (Natural History), India Office Library, Linnean Society of London & Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

A selection of late 18th & early 19th century Indian botanical paintings recording the indigenous and introduced flora of the subcontinent, commissioned by the honourable East India Company and executed in watercolor by native artists, variously lent from the collections of the British Museum (Natural History), India Office Library, Linnean Society of London & Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation.

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Art patronageBotanical illustrationBotanyEast India CompanyExhibitionsHistoryIndic Watercolor paintingPictorial works

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