‘Anagallis’
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 an Anagallis cerulean or the blue pimpernel.
This drawing is an example of one of the plants that grows around the Neilgherries. It features an upright green stem, ovate leaves and small flowers which are dark blue with red at the centre.
Labelled in the accompanying text ‘Pentandria Monogynia … Anagallis arvensis’ however the blue flowers signify that this is in fact the Anagallis cerulean.
Plate 12 (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: ‘Anagallis. 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 an upright green stem, ovate leaves and small flowers which are dark blue with red at the centre.
Labelled in the accompanying text ‘Pentandria Monogynia … Anagallis arvensis’ however the blue flowers signify that this is in fact the Anagallis cerulean.
Plate 12 (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: ‘Anagallis. 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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