Of Pictures & Specimens: Natural History in Post-Revolutionary and Restoration France

Of Pictures & Specimens: Natural History in Post-Revolutionary and Restoration France is organized by the APS Museum in conjunction with its current exhibition, Of Elephants & Roses: Encounters with French Natural History, 1790 – 1830. It will bring together scholars from the United States and France. Included are presentations on topics related to natural history, from the role of artists and gardeners in botanical science and the representations of a giraffe’s African keepers to the influence of natural history on Balzac’s writing and on the birth of the social sciences. Participants bring interdisciplinary perspectives from material culture, the histories of art and science, visual studies, botany, decorative arts, and cultural history.

Of Pictures & Specimens is free of charge. Please click here to register on or before Monday, November 28, 2011.

All events will take place in the APS’s Benjamin Franklin Hall, 427 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Click here for directions.

The symposium has been made possible by generous funding from the Richard Lounsbery Foundation.