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This lecture will offer an overview of botanical illustration, showing drawings from the past and how those illustrations and techniques carried into the present, as well as changes over the past 30 years. Alice Tangerini, Staff Illustrator at the National Museum of Natural History, will show how specimens are collected to be accessed into the Smithsonian herbarium, along with techniques for illustrating those collections for the audience of scientists, for the new digital media used for on-line journals, and some ways that illustrations are done for a more general audience.

Presented by Alice Tangerini, Staff Illustrator, Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Illustrations by Paulus Roetter (upper left) and Alice Tangerini (center, right), arranged by Alice Tangerini. Courtesy of Alice Tangerini and the Smithsonian Institution.