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Mark Catesby

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Mark Catesby (1683 - 1749) was active/lived in South Carolina / England.  Mark Catesby is known for Naturalist illustrations, writings, bird engravings.

The flora and fauna of the New World were a matter of supreme interest to eighteenth-century European naturalists. The astute observations and detailed illustrations of Mark Catesby in The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, which he published in sections beginning in 1731, were the first glimpse at what he termed the "productions of nature," as well as the most complete natural history of that region. The two-volume work contained over two hundred plates that were engraved (and often personally hand colored) by Catesby. It was the product of his collecting expeditions in Virginia from 1712 to 1719, his three-year sojourn (beginning in 1722) in the Carolinas, Florida, and Georgia, and his visit to the Bahamas prior to his return to England in 1726.

Mark Catesby was born in the remote town of Sudbury in Suffolk, England, in 1682. He was the fourth child and youngest son of John and Elizabeth (Jekyll) Catesby. Little is known about his education, but   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6861 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  31
Magazine References:  5

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5 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Mark Catesby
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Artist Nuts & Bolts August 2004 Editors, American Artist No
The Magazine Antiques John Drayton's Watercolors January 2003 Pritchard, Margaret B Yes
American Art Review Art in Florida: 1564-1945 February 2000 Mann, Maybelle Yes
Smithsonian Mark Catesby September 1997 Doug Stewart Yes
American Artist Exhibits August 1997 Editors, American Artist Yes
31 Book References for Mark Catesby
Year Author Title Pages Color
2009 Harris, Adam Duncan Wildlife in American Art: Masterworks from the National Museum of Wildlife Art 262 Yes
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Mann, Maybelle Art in Florida: 1564-1945 194 No
1998 Severens, Martha R The Charleston Renaissance (Publ. of Charleston Renaissance Gallery) 216 Yes
1997 Mark Catesby's Natural History of America: Watercolors from Royal Library 0 No
1997 Virga, Vincent/Alan Brinkley Eyes of the Nation A Visual History of the United States 400 Yes
1995 Severens, Martha R Greenville County Museum of Art The Southern Collection 289 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two) 396 Yes
1990 Tyler, Ron American Canvas The Art, Eye, and Spirit of Pioneer Artists 208 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1983 Davidson, Marshall The Drawing of America Eyewitnesses to History 256 Yes
1983 Poesch, Jessie The Art of the Old South: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and the Products of Craftsmen 384 Yes
1983 Virginia Museum, Richmond Painting in the South: 1564-1980
(Exhibition catalog)		 362 Yes
1983 Wright, R Lewis Artists in Virginia Before 1900: An Annotated Checklist 200 No
1979 Haverstock, Mary Sayre An American Bestiary 248 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1979 Myers, Fred The Treasures of Gilcrease (Tulsa OK) 106 Yes
1977 Barsness, Larry The Bison in Art A Graphic Chronicle of the Ameican Bison
(Exhibition catalog)		 142 Yes
1976 Stebbins, Theodore E American Master Drawings and Watercolors A History of Works on Paper 464 Yes
1975 Norelli, Martina American Wildlife Painting 224 Yes
1973 Davidson, Marshall The Artist's America American Heritage History of 416 Yes
1972 Amon Carter Museum Amon Carter Museum of Western Art Catalogue of the Collection 1972 600 No
1971 Rossi, Paul/David Hunt The Art of the Old West From the Collection of the Gilcrease Institute 335 Yes
1965 Richardson, Edgar P Painting in America From 1502 to the Present 456 Yes
1963 Richardson, Edgar P A Short History of Painting in America 347 Yes
1961 Frick, George; Raymond Stearns Mark Catesby: The Colonial Audubon 0 No
1957 Groce, George; David Wallace The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 759 No
1918 Dunlap, William A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States (Revised edition from 1834) 418 No
1743 Catesby, Mark Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands 0 No
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