The Children’s Book of Wild Flowers by Clarence Bicknell has watercolour drawings of four flowers on the righthand page and their description on the lefthand page. The first letter of the genus is illustrated with a monogram drawing from features of the plant. The hand-written and -illustrated book is in the Bicknell family collection curated […]
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MARVELS: The Life of Clarence Bicknell,Botanist, Archaeologist, Artist. By Valerie Lester REDUCED PRICE OFFER £10 (approx €11.50 or $12.75) by transfer, PayPal or card at old.clarencebicknell.com/shop A treasure trove of research discoveries enlightens Valerie Lester’s biography of the captivating scientist and artist, Clarence Bicknell. Over 5 years, Lester pored over hundreds of newly-discovered letters, botanical
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Clarence Bicknell created this symmetrical pattern in one of the vellum-bound albums now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. It’s the Solanum linnaeanum Hepper & P. – Genus Solanum Family: Solanaceae, which includes food crops of high economic importance: the potato, the tomato and the eggplant (aubergine, brinjal). The family contains also nightshades (Solanum dulcamara) and
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The Casa Fontanalba Visitors’ Book, of which we published a reproduction in 2017, continues to reveal stories of Clarence and his eminent friends. Graham Avery has made a new breathrough in finding a report of the Société Botanique de France about the visit of certain of their members to Clarence’s house in the mountains. Not
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We celebrated by Zoom on Friday night the ten years since Graham Avery started working with us on Clarence. Below you can see the first email which Graham sent to us, ten years ago. The first of many of course. His numerous articles are at old.clarencebicknell.com/documents. He told us about the books he is writing
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Our team is working hard on the upcoiming publication of the the Book of Guests in Esperanto by Clarence Bicknell, a little masterpiece of mountain flowers in his arts-and-crafts style opposite a short note on each of the overnight guests in the Casa Fontanalba. One subject Graham Avery raised has me stumped. He writes “The
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In response to the recent newsletter from the Clarence Bicknell Association, Dssa. Daniela Gandolfi, director of the Istituto Internazionale di Studi Liguri and of the Museo Bicknell in Bordighera, Italy, sent us a most informative note about their recent work on Clarence Bicknell. The world was most impressed with their 2018 exhibition celebrating the centenary
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Here is a monogram B in the index of a Vellum-bound album by Clarence Bicknell in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Even in a simple design like this, Clarence’s arts-and-crafts instincts and botanical art skills make a pleasing design. Plans are afoot to publish his Book of Guests in Esperanto which contains several such monogram initials…
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We are delighted to announce that Clarence Bicknell will be well represented at an international conference on The Paradise of the English in the Ligurian Riviera – Stories, Landscapes and People at the Villa Marigola near La Spezia in Italy on 25-26 March 2022. I have been invited to present a paper and have co-authored
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Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Riviera and Neighbouring MountainsClarence Bicknell, 1885https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Flora_of_Bordighera_and_San_Remo.html?id=TkC9QAAACAAJ&redir_esc=yThe printed version of the book is available at AbeBooks for about £20 (print on demand). Copies of the first edition have occasionally been available in the past from specialised booksellers for about £350. Flora of Bordighera and San RemoClarence Bicknell, 1896https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Flora_of_Bordighera_and_San_Remo/oKM-AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Fritz+Mader&printsec=frontcoverThe printed version
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