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The 16 pages that link to Botanical illustration, each with the reason it gives.

• HerbariumRelated: Illustrations can record details that pressing obscures or damages.

• Joseph BanksRelated: Artists on Banks’s voyage made visual records that supplemented collected specimens.

• CyanotypeRelated: Cyanotype contact prints recorded delicate plant structures without requiring a camera.

• GouacheRelated: Gouache supports layered color and precise detail in plant studies.

• Watercolor paintingRelated: Watercolor can render subtle plant colors and fine structural detail.

• HerbalRelated: Illustrations helped herbal readers recognize plants described in words.

• Magnifying glassRelated: Magnifiers help reveal small structures that botanical illustrators record.

• Aimé BonplandRelated: Illustrations helped communicate plant forms recorded during Bonpland’s expeditions.

• Colored pencilRelated: Colored pencils allow controlled layering of fine details, veins, and subtle plant colors.

• Carolus ClusiusRelated: Images in Clusius’s publications helped identify plants that readers could not examine alive.

• Rachel RuyschRelated: Her botanical accuracy connected flower painting with the practices of plant observation.