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- Title
‘THOROUGHLY CHINESE’: REVEALING THE PLANTS OF THE HONG MERCHANTS' GARDENS THROUGH JOHN BRADBY BLAKE'S PAINTINGS.
- Authors
Richard, Josepha; Woudstra, Jan
- Abstract
The paintings in the John Bradby Blake collection should be admired for their sophisticated artistry and accurate depiction of botanical features, but they are also significant because they reveal the diversity of plants grown in the gardens of Chinese in Guangzhou (Canton). They therefore provide a precious insight into a relatively neglected topic in Chinese garden history, namely the cultivation of plants in gardens. This paper identifies one of the gardens from which the plants depicted by John Bradby Blake might have come, and looks at how those plants were used and appreciated in their Chinese context.
- Subjects
BLAKE, John Bradby; 18TH century painting; PLANT diversity; PLANTS in art; CHINA trade art
- Publication
Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 2017, Vol 34, Issue 4, p475
- ISSN
1355-4905
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/curt.12214