Fair panicled corn grass or bent grass
Date
1689-1713
Creator
Richard Waller (1660 - 1715, British) , Naturalist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p23
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 380mm
width (page): 240mm
width (page): 240mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Botanical study of fair panicled corn grass, or bent grass (Gramen segatum panicula speciosa park). Signed ‘R. Waller pinx[it]’ (Richard Waller painted this). Waller supplied the names for the plants he had depicted from John Ray’s Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Britannicarum (London, 1690), which collates the names for the same plant across different authorities. ‘Park’ refers to John Parkinson, Theatrum Botanicum (1640). This is an incomplete drawing, showing the detailed under-drawing in graphite.
Transcription
Gram[en] segetum paniculâ speciosâ. Park.
Fair panicled corn grass or Bent grass.
Ray No 1 p. 187.
R. Waller pinx.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Fair panicled corn grass or Bent grass.
Ray No 1 p. 187.
R. Waller pinx.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
Richard Waller’s signed watercolour study of English grasses, made between 1689 and 1713. For further details, see the description at MS/131/004.
Related fellows
Richard Waller (1660 - 1715, British) , Naturalist
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