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Image for How to Make a Botanical Drawing
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How to Make a Botanical Drawing

May 3, 2020
Celebrate the changing of the seasons with a botanical drawing exercise that focuses on composition and building shapes through simplified forms.
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Essay

Botanical Imagery in European Painting

August 1, 2007

By Jennifer Meagher

The use of botanical imagery in painting proliferated especially in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, as artists became increasingly interested in the realistic depiction of objects from the natural world.
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Gardens of Western Europe, 1600–1800

October 1, 2003

By Vanessa Bezemer Sellers

Seventeenth-century explorations of the world seas and subsequent advances in natural history and botanical sciences directly affected the appearance of gardens.
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Through Monet's Garden, a Collaboration Blossoms

May 11, 2012

By Masha Turchinsky

It's springtime in New York, and to celebrate we've collaborated with the New York Botanical Garden on a free app that invites you to experience Claude Monet's living masterpiece, his garden at Giverny.
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The History and Practice of Observing Nature: Garden Days at The Met Cloisters

May 26, 2016

By Christina Alphonso

Administrator Christina Alphonso invites visitors to enjoy Garden Days at The Met Cloisters Saturday, June 4, and Sunday, June 5.
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Green Rooms: Plants at the Museum

November 8, 2023

By Jennie Choi

Gallery photographs over the last century reveal the evolving use of plants in indoor design.
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The Medieval Garden Enclosed—The Palm

January 16, 2009

By Deirdre Larkin

Deirdre Larkin, managing horticulturalist of The Met Cloisters, discusses the origins of the Date palm and its significance in medieval art and life.
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A Handful of Wildflowers

February 27, 2017

By Caleb Leech

Managing Horticulturist Caleb Leech highlights the work of former Met Cloisters curator and director Margaret B. Freeman, who extensively collected and researched the many types of wildflowers used in the medieval household.
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Past Exhibition

Spring Blossoms: Margaret Armstrong’s Decorated Publishers’ Bindings

February 15, 2020–January 31, 2022
Margaret Armstrong (1867–1944) was an author, book cover designer, field collector, and botanical illustrator. She was among the most influential designers of her time and a source of inspiration for other female book cover designers and future gen…
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The Gameboard Garden

July 7, 2015

By Fatima Quraishi

Hagop Kevorkian Fellow Fatima Quraishi highlights a selection of objects now on view in gallery 463 that showcase the reverence for nature held by artists of Mughal India.
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Botanical plate with fruiting branch

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory (British, 1745–1784, Red Anchor Period, ca. 1753–58)

Date: ca. 1755
Accession Number: 2016.222

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Botanical plate with thistle

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory (British, 1745–1784, Red Anchor Period, ca. 1753–58)

Date: ca. 1755
Accession Number: 2016.217

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Botanical plate with a flowering eggplant

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory (British, 1745–1784, Red Anchor Period, ca. 1753–58)

Date: ca. 1755
Accession Number: 2016.220

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Art

Botanical oval platter with turnip leaf

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory (British, 1745–1784, Red Anchor Period, ca. 1753–58)

Date: ca. 1755
Accession Number: 2016.225

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Art

Botanical plate with spray of lilies

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory (British, 1745–1784, Red Anchor Period, ca. 1753–58)

Date: ca. 1755
Accession Number: 2016.223

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Botanical Study of Indian Mulberry (Morinda citrifolia)

Date: late 18th century
Accession Number: 2016.652

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One of a pair of lidded vases with cover (Vase en tour)

Sèvres Manufactory (French, 1740–present)

Date: ca. 1762
Accession Number: IWD.159a, b

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In a Quandary, or Mississippi Raftsmen at Cards

George Caleb Bingham (American, Augusta County, Virginia 1811–1879 Kansas City, Missouri)

Date: 1851
Accession Number: SL.5.2015.15.1

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Charles Stuart Forbes

John Singer Sargent (American, Florence 1856–1925 London)

Date: ca. 1882
Accession Number: SL.6.2015.55.1

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Botanical illustration

Félix Leblanc (French, born Paris, 1823)

Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 33.104.864