Mee, Margaret.

number 21 of 506 copies, this being one of 100 bound in vellum and with an original gouache over pencil drawing signed my margaret mee, folio (530 x 385mm.), coloured illustrations, original vellum, slipcase

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"Unlike Amazon botanical artists before her, Margaret worked entirely from living plants. Her fifteen expeditions into the interior, mostly to Amazonia, involved travelling and living under the most primitive conditions. She would draw at night by torchlight to capture rare nocturnal flowers, and this immediacy gave her paintings an accuracy, depth, and colour unrivalled by her predecessors. Her travels coincided with the beginning of the commercial exploitation of the forest, and she expressed her fury at the damage caused to the land and its peoples" (ODNB).