Shirley Sherwood
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Shirley Angela Sherwood is a British writer, botanist and philanthropist.
The Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanic Art
Botanical illustration
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Botanical illustration is the art of depicting the form, color, and details of plant species. They are generally meant to be scientifically descriptive about subjects depicted and are often found prin
Shirley Sherwood
…took a bachelor's degree in botany and a D.Phil. working on a project that led to tagamet. She is primarily a collector of, and author of books about, botanical illustrations. The Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, opened on 19 April 2008, at Kew Gardens is named after her. It was the first gallery in the world…
American Turk's cap lily, Lilium superbum, Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708–70), About 1750–53, Watercolor and gouache on vellum V&A Museum no. D.589-1886
Banksia coccinea from Ferdinand Bauer's 1813 work Illustrationes Florae Novae Hollandiae
Blackberry. Vienna Dioscurides, early sixth century
Tuft of Cowslips (1526) by Albrecht Dürer, gouache on vellum, collection of the National Gallery of Art