Botanical drawing No. 55 by Jane Wells Loudon depicts white, orange and magenta color lilies. The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History’s newest ...

Drawn by a Lady: Early Women Illustrators, which celebrates the talent of artists and authors in 19th-century Victorian England who were disregarded because of their gender, is now on view at the ...

Anna Atkins died in 1871, but her story is only now being fully written, and it’s no staid Victorian tale. Joshua Chuang speaks of her in an urgent whisper. Granted, he works in a library — as ...

In the age before warning labels and liability waivers, scientific experimentation often looked like something between a séance and a rave. Case in point: this glorious 1807 illustration from a ...

THE ORCHID House at an historic walled garden is to provide the backdrop to an art exhibition of paintings inspired by nature.