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A fresh perspective on British landscape drawing in the Victorian and Modern eras. The attempts by artists of the Victorian and early Modern period to convey not merely the physical properties of a landscape but also its emotional and spiritual impact ¿ landscape as `places of the mind¿, as the critic Geoffrey Grigson put it ¿ is the focus of this fascinating new study of British watercolours produced between 1850 and 1950. Drawing on the Brit...

John White's watercolours of the flora, fauna and North Carolina Algonquians he encountered on the expedition sent by Walter Raleigh in 1585 are some of the greatest treasures of the British Museum, engraved by Theodor de Bry in 1590 to illustrate Thomas Harriot's A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia , they informed and shaped Europe's view of America and its people for the next two centuries. This volume publishes a very...

The Enlightenment was a period of intense activity devoted to discovery and learning about the natural world, the past and other civilizations. Classification, collecting and deciphering were all important stages on the way to understanding the world.

Published to accompany an exhibition being held at the British Museum, "Places Of The Mind" offers a new perspective on British landscape drawing throughout the Victorian and Modern eras.

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