Botanical Feast for the Eye

**"Doreen Howard" g*@charter.net**

This is from the USDA:

> STORY LEAD:
> Botanical Feast for the Eye:  The Prestele Exhibit
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> ARS News Service
> Agricultural Research Service, USDA
> Len Carey, (301) 504-5564, lcarey@nal.usda.gov
> February 27, 2006
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> Winter blues are already giving way to the hues of spring and summer at 
> the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library (NAL) 
> in Beltsville, Md., with the March 1 opening of a significant exhibition 
> of botanical illustration art titled Inspiration and Translation: 
> Botanical and Horticultural Lithographs of Joseph Prestele and Sons.
>
> The 112-piece exhibition features original watercolors and lithographic 
> prints by Joseph Prestele and sons, plus an array of other items that 
> document the family's work for botanists and horticulturalists of the late 
> 1800s. A catalog of the exhibition is for sale at the NAL.
>
> Joseph Prestele (1796-1867), a botanical painter and master lithographer, 
> immigrated to the United States from Bavaria in the 1840s. His 
> sons--Joseph Jr., Gottlieb and William Henry--also became botanical 
> artists. In fact, William Henry Prestele (1838-1895) was the first 
> botanical artist hired by the USDA's Division of Pomology, in 1887. The 
> Prestele family produced botanical illustrations for USDA and the 
> Smithsonian Institution, as well as for the nursery and seed trade. Their 
> watercolors and lithographs are highest-quality scientific illustrations, 
> as well as fine art.
>
> The exhibition is the result of an NAL collaboration with the Hunt 
> Institute for Botanical Documentation at Carnegie Mellon University in 
> Pittsburgh, Pa. It draws from the collections of both institutions, along 
> with the Smithsonian, and also includes items from the Amana Heritage 
> Society and Prestele descendent Marcelee Konish. Before arriving at the 
> NAL, the exhibition opened at the Hunt Institute in September 2005.
>
> The National Agricultural Library is located at 10301 Baltimore Ave., 
> Beltsville. The exhibition will be on view from March 1 through May 31 in 
> the first-floor reading room on weekdays, except federal holidays, 8:30 
> a.m. - 4:30 p.m. The NAL is the largest and most accessible agricultural 
> library in the world and is part of USDA's principal research agency, the 
> Agricultural Research Service.
>
> To learn more about the Prestele exhibition and similar collections, visit 
> the NAL Special Collections Unit website at:
> http://www.nal.usda.gov/speccoll/speccoll.shtml
>
> Tours and presentations about the Prestele exhibition may be arranged 
> through NAL's Special Collections Unit by calling (301) 504-6503, or via 
> email to speccoll@nal.usda.gov.
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