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Major Botanical Art Collections
​in the UK

This page contains links to permanent collections of botanical art in the UK 

​( Separate pages contains links to permanent collections in Europe and the USA )
The largest collections of botanical art are associated with the Botanical Gardens.
However important collections are also included in the Library and Print collections
​associated with top level museums and archives.

National Libraries of Botanical Art in the UK
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British Library
​

The British Library includes prints and drawings, herbals and books of botanical art have progressed over time between different collections. Items in the British Museum generally end up here or at the Natural History Museum.  Periodically, works are displayed. Plus the British Library is developing a resource of digitised illustrations and books.

CLOSED until further notice due to the Coronavirus Pandemic

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The British Library (next to St. Pancras Station)

RHS Lindley Library
​

The Lindley Library’s art collection numbers approximately 30,000 drawings, dating back almost 400 years. Principally consisting of botanical art, it also contains portraits of eminent horticultural figures, and to a lesser extent, paintings of gardens and ‘garden art’. The Society began commissioning paintings of flowering plants and fruit in the early nineteenth century, to support its work on plant recording and identification. Notable artists include Georg Dionysius Ehret, Augusta Withers, William Hooker, Claude Aubriet and Lilian Snelling. New works are acquired on a regular basis and represent the best in contemporary botanical illustration, by artists from all over the world. Open to the public by appointment, researchers and artists are able to consult the collection and gain inspiration.
The RHS Lindley Library is the world's finest horticultural library.
CLOSED until further notice due to the Coronavirus Pandemic

It includes
  • a heritage art collection: 30,000+ works of art 
  • 80,000+ titles - the oldest book dates back to 1514. 
Exhibitions of botanical art and other visuals relating to horticulture and plants.
from the collection are periodically seen at
  • the Library in Vincent Square (see UK Exhibitions)
  • The RHS Botanical Art Show - held every year in the RHS Lindley Hall at the rear of the Library; and
  • the Libraries at the RHS Gardens around England.
Drop in library tours and a programme of talks - which include talks by leading botanical artists - are also held.
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The RHS Headquarters at 80 Vincent Square in London houses the main Lindley Library and associated collection
The RHS Lindley Library London has recently has a refurbishment and redesign to create a larger, open plan library and exhibition gallery on the ground floor.

The Research Library is in the basement with access by appointment. You can 
Download the RHS Guide for Researchers (1MB pdf)
Visit the Libraries - The collections are free and accessible to all. 
  • The largest branch is in London (Lindley Library London, 80 Vincent Square, London, SW1P 2PE) - features History of gardens, gardening, and garden design; history of plants and plant discovery; archives, art. The Archives include Botanical art; Nursery catalogues; Rare books and 19th centurybooks and journals ​
  • the Library at Wisley and the Garden Libraries at each of the RHS gardens are also an important part of the Lindley Library. Features practical gardening and garden design; (plus horticultural science and plant taxonomy and cultivation at Wisley)
  • Lindley Library Online Catalogue - includes 1000 images digitally scanned from works in the library’s early books collection
  • See "The cultural heritage collections of the RHS Lindley Library" by Brent Elliott
You can search the collection via
  • The Lindley Library Online Catalogue
  • Information for Users
If you go to the ‘Advanced search’ link and change the Format to Drawings, you can then call up all the entries, or limit by artist’s name.

The RHS is slowly migrating records to a new system that links thumbnails to the records. More recent acquisitions are on the new CALM system, rather than the library book catalogue, so don't come up on the library catalogue system.

 
Treasures of the Royal Horticultural Society
by Brent Elliott

Dr Brent Elliott was Librarian of the Royal Horticultural Society (1982 to 2007) and subsequently became its historian. 

This book is about the history of the 18,000 drawings and paintings in the RHS Lindley Library Collection. It also contains 70 plates of images of plants dating from 1630s to the late 20th century.
Hardback & Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Herbert Press Ltd
Publication date: 1 June 1994

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​National Museums with Botanical Art Collections
​

Natural History Museum
​

The Natural History Museum now has nearly all the botanical illustrations which were originally in the British Museum.  
CLOSED until further notice due to the Coronavirus Pandemic

The Images of Nature Gallery (on the ground floor) has a temporary themed exhibition each year which brings out artwork which is usually unseen.

There are botanical art collections kept at the Natural History Museum which can be accessed by those applying for permission.

This are the link to the 
  • The Bauer brothers collection
  • Modern botanical illustration
  • The Linnaean collection
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Natural History Museum - part of the Cromwell Road Facade
Address: 
Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD
Women Artists: Images of Nature
by Andrea Hart

This book covers contributions by women artists to natural history art, science and education over the last four centuries.

Illustrations have been selected from the collections held in the Library of the Natural History Museum - from well know artworks to little known gems.

It contains natural history as well as botanical illustrations.

Paperback: 112 pages
Publisher: The Natural History Museum 
Published: 1 February 2014
112 pages / ​25x21.5cm

Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars by reviewers


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Women Artists: Images of Nature
The video below shows the stacks for the Natural History Library Collection of botanical art and how it can be displayed to the visitor with an appointment.

Victoria and Albert Museum
​

Address: Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL
​
Read this article to find out about the Electronic Resources in the National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A)
  • Botanical Illustration - a  list of books about botanical art which can be accessed at the V&A
  • There is a Study Room resource: Botanical illustration - this provides some information about the art of botanical drawing from the 15th century to the present day and also advises about Private Groups and Tours
  • This is the link to their Botanical Illustration Study Guide
Work is currently in progress to produce a web-based image database that will permit many more images to be accessed through library catalogue records. When this work is complete, over 7,000 images from the library’s early book collection will be available to view, each image accompanied by descriptive data.
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Victoria and Albert Museum - Cromwell Road entrance

Fitzwilliam Museum
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Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge
Address: Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RB

The Museum has an excellent collection of botanical art covering its development over 300 years.  These include 
  • 104 drawings and paintings by George Ehret
  • 83 drawings and paintings by Pierre Joseph Redouté
The Museum has an outstanding collection of botanical art. It benefited from an outstanding bequest by Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Lord Fairhaven (1900-1973) who presented over 100 paintings, many floral miniatures, over 900 drawings and watercolours as well as 38 albums to the Museum during his lifetime and upon his death.  Plus it also posses a a significant number of watercolours by the first German 17th-century female entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian and the talented Flemish painter of insects, Jan van Kessel
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Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Camrbridge - entrance on Trumpington Street
Flower Drawings (Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks)​
by 
David Scrase  (Author)

If you want to view drawings of flowers from the collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum but are unable to visit, this Handbook is the next best thing. It takes a chronological perspective of the developments in drawing flowers from the 15th century to the present day via the more scientific approach of the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. I found it introduced me to a number of lesser known botanical artists over the centuries.

I bought my copy from the Cambridge University Press Bookshop opposite the Senate House in Cambridge.

David Scrase is Assistant Director, Collections, and Keeper of Paintings, Drawings and Prints at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 
Published: 19 Jun 1997 
142 pages

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Flower Drawings (Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks)

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
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Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Address: 
Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2PH 
​
The Ashmolean is the University of Oxford’s museum of art and archaeology, founded in 1683. Its original botanical art collection came from the Tradescant family of gardeners.

It's actually impossible to identify online any botanical art in the Ashmolean Museum as "botanical" does not seem to be an tag or categoriser recognised by the digital online database. If you want to see what they've got in their collection you might be better off buying the book below - about the highly rated exhibition in 2005!
REFERENCE:
  • 1000 Years Of Botanical Art At Oxford's Ashmolean Museum | Culture 24
  • A New Flowering - 1000 Years of Botanical Art' | Daily Info, Oxford - local paper's review of the exhibition
A New Flowering: 1000 Years of Botanical Art by Shirley Sherwood
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This catalogue relates to the Ashmolean's leading exhibition of 2005. ​
​It features examples of botanical art from the previous 1,000 years and provides an opportunity to compare illustrations by contemporary artists alongside remarkable botanical art pf the past. 

​The original hardback is now out of print and 'new' copies of the original sell for a LOT of money. However there is a paperback reprint
Publisher: Ashmolean Museum
Published: 2005
​Paperback: 200 pages
Reprint edition: 19 May 2014

Cover painting of Australian Tree Fern, (2004) by Stephanie Berni (The Shirley Sherwood Collection)
Contents:
  • Foreword - H.R.H. The Prince of Wales
  • Foreword - Dr Christopher Brown
  • Nature Portrayed: Botanical Painting from Antiquity to the Contemporary Age - Prof. Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi
  • The Renaissance of Contemporary Botanical Art - Dr Shirley Sherwood
  • Catalogue Biographies of Contemporary Artists
  • The Scientific Context of Botanical Art - Dr Stephen A. Harris
  • Techniques of Botanical Illustration - Dr Barrie E. Juniper. 
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Museum of Wales | Rhagor

​Amgueddfa Cymru (National Museum of Wales)
​Address: National Museum Cardiff, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NP

CLOSED until further notice due to the Coronavirus Pandemic

Holds a unique collection of more than 9,000 botanical illustrations spanning five centuries. ​
  • A passion for plants: botanical illustration by women artists
​More about the collection: Drawn from nature: Botanical illustrations
Current Projects:
  • Bute Botanical Tables: Botanical Illustrations research project
  • Discoveries and Destinies: Botanical Illustrations research project
  • Nuremberg: hothouse of botanical illustration

UK Botanical Gardens - Collections & Archives
​

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
​

Kew's Botanical Illustrations Collection has more than 200,000 prints and drawing. 

This is one of the world's greatest collections of botanical art. It comprises over 200,000 drawings, paintings and fine art prints - typically engravings. These include works by masters of botanical art such as G D Ehret and the Bauer Brothers, together with nineteenth century artists such as Walter Hood Fitch.
  • You can find out more about illustrations relating to the History of Botanical Art in the Library, Art and Archives of Kew's website. 
  • You can also find out about botanical illustrations on the Library, Art & Archives blog
  • The Illustrations Collection page on the Kew website contains some other links which reference Kew’s Roxburgh Collection of drawings of Indian artists and the Marianne North and Shirley Sherwood galleries at Kew. 
  • See a digitised version of some of Kew’s Nathaniel Wallich drawings plus specimens and correspondence
REFERENCE:
Articles:
  • Portraying plants: illustrations collections at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • Discover the new Library, Art & Archives Reading Room
  • Sir Joseph Hooker's Collections at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (pdf)
Address:
  • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AE | Email: info@kew.org
  • Wakehurst Place (which houses the Millenium Seedbank), Ardingly, nr Haywards Heath, West Sussex RH17 6TN | Email: wakehurst@kew.org​
Treasures of Botanical Art: Icons from the Shirley Sherwood and Kew Collections 
by Shirley Sherwood and Martyn Rix

Treasures of Botanical Art by Shirley Sherwood and Martyn Rix was published by Kew Publishing to mark the inaugural exhibition of the brand new The Shirley Sherwood Gallery in Kew Gardens in 2008. 

Read my review of this book Making a Mark: Treasures of Botanical Art - a recommended read
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Treasures of Botanical Art - Amazon.co.uk
Treasures of Botanical Art: Icons from the Shirley Sherwood and Kew Collections - from Amazon.com
The Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art (Kew Gardens)
​CLOSED until further notice due to the Coronavirus Pandemic
​
  • opened on 19 April 2008
  • became the first gallery in the world dedicated to botanical art
  • exhibits works of art from the collection of The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 
  • provides a home to one of the world's most comprehensive collections of original contemporary botanical art - created by Dr Shirley Sherwood, the gallery's founder and sponsor.​
Read my account of the new Gallery in Kew opens the world's first dedicated botanical art gallery. 
​
The climate-controlled environment with managed light levels helps to make Kew's collections of botanical art treasures much more accessible. This means the botanical art is no longer kept in study collections behind the scenes and is instead viewed by many fans of botanical art from all over the world. Over time, most of the works are now being publicly displayed in a series of themed exhibitions.
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Dr. Shirley Sherwood at the "Rory McEwen: The Colours of Reality" Exhibition in the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art at Kew Gardens
The Marianne North Gallery (Kew Gardens)
CLOSED until further notice due to the Coronavirus Pandemic
​
  • contains 833 paintings of more than 900 species of plants. Both the Gallery and the paintings have recently been the subject of a major project to conserve and protect them.
  • this is Kew's Marianne North Online Gallery
  • Find all of Kew’s Marianne North paintings online via the Public Catalogue Foundation’s site. 

Kew Gardens - two women and two galleries for botanical art is an account of the two biotanical art galleries at Kew Garden and how they came about through the efforts of two women living decades apart - working in collaboration with the Royal Botanical Gardens.  Both offered to build the galleries.
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Interior of the Marianne North Gallery - prior to the renovation

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Library & Archives

The RBGE's Illustrations Collection in the Library and Archives includes artwork which demonstrate the development of botanical art from the late 17th century through to the present day.
CLOSED until further notice due to the Coronavirus Pandemic

Examples of collections includes:
  • Contemporary Collection
  • Historical Collections
  • John Hope Collection
  • Indian Collections (Roxburgh, Cleghorn, White, Dapuri)
  • Teaching Diagrams
  • Nature Prints
  • Photographic Collections

Address: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh library, Inverleith Row
Edinburgh EH3 5LR
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Edinburgh Botanical gardens by Tom Richardson [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Private Collections: The Shirley Sherwood Collection
​

This is the largest contemporary and private collection of botanical art in the world. Dr Sherwood has been collecting botanical art since 1990.

​The collection is now mainly based at Kew but also travels regularly to exhibitions all over the world - including major exhibitions in the USA - as Dr Sherwood is keen to let people see some of the best artwork from the past and present.

She has also written about artwork in her collection in a number of books.

You can see:
  • Current and Upcoming Exhibitions on the Exhibitions at Major UK Art Galleries and Museums page
  • plus an archive of Past Exhibitions on the Archive: Shirley Sherwood Gallery Exhibitions Page
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Dr. Shirley Sherwood at the Private View for the 2016 exhibition "Brazil: a powerhouse of plants: Margaret Mee, pioneering artist and her legacy" at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery at Kew

Digital Libraries

Plant Illustrations (website)
  • botanical illustrations | artists
    A very comprehensive listing of botanical artists. Click the name to see their work. The number of works is listed next to the name

    Suggest an online collection not included above

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      • Book Review: Treasures of Botanical Art
    • Herbals
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      • About Leonhart Fuchs
      • About Basilius Besler
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      • About Elizabeth Blackwell
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      • NEW Books about Botanical Art & Illustration (2020)
      • Best Instruction Books by Botanical Art Societies >
        • The Art of Botanical Painting - review
        • The Botanical Palette - review
        • Botanical Sketchbook - review
      • Best Instruction Books about Botanical Illustration >
        • Botanical Illustration - Books by Bobbi Angell
        • Botanical Illustration (Oxley) - review
      • Best Botanical Drawing Instruction Books (Pencils) >
        • Botanical Painting with Coloured Pencils - review
      • Best Instruction Books by top Artists / Teachers >
        • Books By Billy Showell
        • Books - the Eden Project
      • NEW Books about Botanical Art & Illustration (2019)
      • NEW Books about Botanical Art & Illustration (2018)
    • Tips and Techniques >
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      • Design and composition
      • Colour
      • Pen and Ink
      • How to draw and paint trees and leaves
      • Botanical Art Video Tips >
        • Video Tips: Watercolour Painting
        • Video Tips: Painting Flowers
        • Video Tips: Painting Leaves & Trees
        • Video Tips Coloured Pencils
        • Video Tips: Pencil drawing
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