ART 470/BIOL 470 - Biological Illustration

• Zweifel, Frances W. A handbook of biological illustration. 1961. Upper Level Books - QH318 .Z97

• Lapage, Geoffrey. Art and the scientist. 1961. Upper Level Books - QH318 .L3

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Click on each search title, it will open a browser with the search result list in the library catalog. Searches only contain book materials (print and electronic) in EWU Library collection, not the Summit system:

• Natural history illustration
• Natural history illustrators
• “Pictorial works” form subdivision searches: 
  • Birds – Pictorial works
  • Natural history – Pictorial works
  • Animals – Pictorial works
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  • Background on scope of the term:
    • “Use as a form subdivision under names of countries, cities, etc., individual persons, families, and corporate bodies and other named entities, such as individual parks, structures, etc., and under classes of persons, ethnic groups, individual wars, and topical headings. Also use under individual literary works entered under author for works consisting of pictures pertaining to the work as a physical object, or, in the case of dramatic works, to productions of the work.”
    • Subject Headings Manual: Pictorial Works H 1935: 
      • “used for works consisting primarily of pictures.”
      • 50% rule-of-thumb (section 1.b & c.)
      • 2. Exceptions to the general rules.
        • d. Illustrations. For collections of pictorial representations found in types of published materials, individual literatures and literary forms, the works of individual authors, individual works, and sacred works, use the subdivision –Illustrations. See H 1659 for complete instructions on use of the subdivision.
        • e. Photography. For works on photography containing reproductions of photographs where the focus is on their photographic aspect, assign headings of the type Photography; Photography, Artistic; Nature photography; Photography of food. See H 1255 for instructions on artistic photography.
        • f. Scientific and technical atlases. For scientific or technical works consisting of comprehensive, often systematically arranged, collections of illustrative plates, charts, etc., usually with explanatory captions, use the subdivision BAtlases under topics, for example, Human anatomy–Atlases.
    • These are items that are image-dense, but the type of image is not specified in the description; could be photographs OR drawings OR both.
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  • “Illustrations” form subdivision: “Use as a form subdivision under individual works (author-title or title entries), uniform titles of sacred works, and individual literatures, literary forms, and types of published materials for collections of pictorial representations of those works. Also use under names of individual persons for collections of pictorial representations of the person's written works.”
    • Only for illustrated named works, not topics

Biology and Other Science Areas:

• Q222: Science--Science (General)--Scientific illustration

• QH46.5: Science--Natural history (General)--Natural history illustration

• QH318: Science--Biology (General)--Study and teaching. Research--Biological illustration

• QK98.15-QK98.3: Science--Botany--Botanical illustration and artists

  • Subject headings: Botanical illustration; Artists, Botanical

  • Narrower Terms: Biography, Catalogs, General works, History, Technique

• QK112: Science--Botany--Geographical distribution. Phytogeography--Topographical divisions--America--North America--Illustrations of North American flora

• QK909: Science--Botany--Plant ecology--Illustrations of floral ecology of regions

• QL674.4: Science--Zoology--Chordates. Vertebrates--Birds--Ornithological illustration

• R836.A1-R836.Z: Medicine--Medicine (General)--Medical education. Medical schools--Teaching techniques--Medical illustration
      Illustration, Medical

Fine Art Areas:

• NC815: Fine Arts > Drawing. Design. Illustration > Special subjects (Technique, history and collections) > Trees. Plants. Flowers > Plants and flowers

• NC810: Fine Arts > Drawing. Design. Illustration > Special subjects (Technique, history and collections) > Trees. Plants. Flowers > Trees

• NC780-NC783.8: Fine Arts--Drawing. Design. Illustration--Special subjects (Technique, history and collections)--Art anatomy--Animal and wildlife anatomy and drawing

  • Narrower Terms (click on each to find specific call number from Library of Congress Classification website)

    • Birds
    • Endangered species
    • Extinct animals. Dinosaurs. Prehistoric animals. Fossil animals
    • Fishes. Sharks. Whales. Marine fauna
    • General works
    • Insects
    • Other animals, A-Z

• NC825.A-NC825.Z: Fine Arts--Drawing. Design. Illustration--Special subjects (Technique, history and collections)--Other subjects, A-Z

  • See this link for list of "Other subjects"

Use the EWU Library Catalog to search and request items using the Summit system (a group of academic libraries in the Pacific Northwest).

Use the WorldCat database to search and request items using the Interlibrary Loan system (materials from libraries around the world).  Questions about Interlibrary Loan?  See the Interlibrary Loan information pages.

Link to Biology Research Guide section on Finding Books

Link to Art Research Guide section on Finding Books

Audubon, John James, and Marshall B Davidson. The Original Water-Color Paintings. New York: Distributed by Crown Publishers, 1966.

Link to catalog record: https://alliance-ewu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01ALLIANCE_EWU/4s7dq9/alma99351819900101843