Exhibition features historic botanical ties
By Julian Shea in London |
chinadaily.com.cn |
Updated: 2026-05-06 03:29
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But for all that has sprung out of what was, originally, a business research project, it is one of the personal effects in the exhibition that is most revealing about the exchange of knowledge all those centuries ago — Blake's pictionary.
"There were dictionaries before, but they tended to focus on trade," said House. "This seems to be a private thing of Blake's. It's more about things that might interest someone personally, like food and animals, which is what makes it quite unique. It's heavily annotated, so that shows people were using it to understand language and words, and to exchange information."
