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Art Meets Science – The Unpublished Drawings by Carl Hedelin and Thérèse Ekblom

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At the end of the nineteenth century, Alfred Gabriel Nathorst (1850–1921), then professor of palaeobotany in Stockholm, planned a major investigation of plant fossils from Iceland. This work was, however, put aside and not revived before his death. What remained was a set of more than 40 sheets containing pencil drawings of several hundred fossils from Iceland. The drawings prepared by Carl Axel Hedelin and Thérèse Ekblom between 1885 and ca 1910 are of extraordinary beauty and highest precision. Because of their grandeur and accuracy these pencil drawings constitute an outstanding body of scientific illustrations. They are made available here for the first time.

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  1. Department of Palaeobotany, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden

    Thomas Denk

  2. Department of Palaeontology, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, 1090, Vienna, Austria

    Friðgeir Grímsson & Reinhard Zetter

  3. Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland, Sturlugata 7, 101, Reykjavik, Iceland

    Leifur A. Símonarson

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Denk, T., Grímsson, F., Zetter, R., Símonarson, L.A. (2011). Art Meets Science – The Unpublished Drawings by Carl Hedelin and Thérèse Ekblom. In: Late Cainozoic Floras of Iceland. Topics in Geobiology, vol 35. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0372-8_14

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