The Art of British Natural History: Images of Nature

About Andrea Hart

Andrea Hart is the Special Collections Manager at the Natural History Museum where she has worked for nearly 20 years. Andrea has wide experience of all of the subject collections in the library having worked on their curation research conservation development and outreach. For eight years she was specifically responsible for the Botany Library collections which include impressive original artworks rare books and manuscript collections. She is the author of Women Artists another book in the Images of Nature series. The Library of the Natural History Museum is a repository for one of the most exciting and comprehensive collections of natural history literature and artworks to be found anywhere in the world. It holds Britain's largest collection of natural history artworks on paper representing many of the great natural history artists along with many thousands of books including some richly illustrated volumes of great historical significance.