ONE hundred rarely seen Victorian paintings have gone on display.
The work of Marianne North is being exhibited at Preston Hall Museum, in Eaglescliffe, near Stockton, until March 8.
The collection is on loan from the Royal Botanic Gardens, in Kew, and shows how Marianne portrayed plants in their natural habitat, as well as landscapes, animals, birds and insects.
Between 1871 and 1881, Marianne travelled to the US, Jamaica, Japan, Singapore, Sarawak, Java, Sri Lanka, India, Australia and New Zealand, and completed several hundred paintings. The Royal Botanic Gardens displays 832 of them and Marianne supervised the selection and hanging, stipulating her work should never travel or be rearranged.
The 100 paintings at Preston Hall are not part of the main collection.
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