High and Dry is a new exhibition of ten digitally restored prints taken from the Naturalist Library and will be on show at The Fine Foundation Wild Seas/Dorset Wildlife Trust Centre at Kimmeridge Bay in Dorset.
It’s almost 200 years since the publication between 1833–1843 of Sir William Jardine’s popular forty volumes Naturalist’s Library. This was the first work that brought affordable natural history knowledge to many sections of British society. The engravings made by William Lizars were the jewels in the crown for each book and each hand coloured image a work of art. Readers saw species in full colour, usually pictured high and dry on a beach, with information about them that was often new to science.
High and Dry is a new exhibition of ten digitally restored prints taken from the Naturalist Library and will be on show at The Fine Foundation Wild Seas/Dorset Wildlife Trust Centre at Kimmeridge Bay in Dorset. This exhibition runs from Saturday 3rd September 2022 to Sunday 2nd October.
It tells the story of the extraordinary people who made the original hand coloured engravings and shows how the artwork might have looked like almost two hundred years ago.
The exhibition runs from Saturday 3rd September 2022 to Sunday 2nd October.
High and Dry Art Exhibition
Date: 3rd September 2022 – 2nd October 2022
Time: 11:00am – 4:00pm
Location: The Fine Foundation Wild Seas Centre, Kimmeridge