‘Pedicularis’
Date
1834
Creator
Jean-Baptiste Tassin (1800 - 1868, French) , Lithographer
After
Mrs P, Artist
Object type
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 257mm
width (print): 165mm
width (print): 165mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Botanical drawing of a Pedicularis or Lousewort.
This drawing is an example of one of the plants that grows around the Neilgherries. It features a sub erect green stem, alternating oblong, crenate, leaves and small, pink, flowers that have a hooded upper lid and three lobbed lower lip.
Labelled in the accompanying text ‘Didynamia Angiospermia… Pedicularis’
Plate 11 (not numbered) from the book Observations on the Neilgherries, including an account of their topography, climate, soil & productions… by R Baikie, Esq M.D. ed W.H. Smoult (Calcutta, 1834).
Inscribed below: ‘Pedicularis. Drawn from Nature by Mrs P. J.B. Tassin lith.’
Robert Baikie (1799-1889) British physician and East India Company surgeon in the Madras Army. Baikie retired from service in 1844 and then practised medicine in Edinburgh.
This drawing is an example of one of the plants that grows around the Neilgherries. It features a sub erect green stem, alternating oblong, crenate, leaves and small, pink, flowers that have a hooded upper lid and three lobbed lower lip.
Labelled in the accompanying text ‘Didynamia Angiospermia… Pedicularis’
Plate 11 (not numbered) from the book Observations on the Neilgherries, including an account of their topography, climate, soil & productions… by R Baikie, Esq M.D. ed W.H. Smoult (Calcutta, 1834).
Inscribed below: ‘Pedicularis. Drawn from Nature by Mrs P. J.B. Tassin lith.’
Robert Baikie (1799-1889) British physician and East India Company surgeon in the Madras Army. Baikie retired from service in 1844 and then practised medicine in Edinburgh.
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