Science and artin theRHS Reeves Collection

摘要

THROUGHOUT 2013 and 2014 we were part of a team working with scientists at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) and Nottingham Trent University (NTU) investigating the RHS Reeves collection of Chinese botanical drawings. The project looked at the materials used in 19th century Chinese pictures and sought to compare the RHS Reeves Collection with a small selection of similar export paintings held by the V&A.The RHS Reeves Collection comprises eight substantial volumes of botanical pictures collected by John Reeves during his time in Canton (now Guangzhou) and Macau in China (Bailey 2010a,