Drawn from life science and art in the portrayal of the New World - Dickenson, Victoria (University of Toronto Press, 1998)
Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-299) and index
"The use of images as evidence in historical writing has been largely neglected by historians, though recent interest in the importance of visualization in scientific literature has led to a reappraisal of their value. In Drawn from Life, Victoria Dickenson uncovers a vast pictorial tradition of 'scientific illustration' that reveals how artists and writers from the late sixteenth to the early nineteenth century portrayed the natural history and landscape of North America to European readers." "Dickenson undertakes a close reading of the images created by European artists, most of whom had never seen North America, and unravels the threads that linked the images to the curiosities and specimens that reached the Old World."--Jacket
Introduction: The Bittern from Hudson's-Bay -- - Ch. 1 - Emblematic Animals - Glimpses of the New World: Early Maps of North America - Marks and Emblems: Claiming a New World - Words into Pictures: The Su, the Bison, and the Simivulpa -- - Ch. 2 - Naturalism and the Counterfeit of Nature - The Development of Naturalism - The Representation as Counterfeit - Translating the Image: The Value of Repeated Pictorial Statement -- - Ch. 3 - The Living Image - Cornut and the Canadensium Plantarum - The Herbal Tradition - The Sea of Simples - The Book of God's Works: The Garden in Print - Cornut and Charlevoix -- - Ch. 4 - The Redefinition of Landscape - ... a vast and prodigious Cadence of Water - The Conventions of Landscape - The Deer Park - The Imposition of Order