Gardenia from a specimen in the British Museum
Date
1762
Creator
Richard Waller (1660 - 1715, British) , Naturalist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p26
Material
Dimensions
height (paper): 399mm
width (paper): 241mm
width (paper): 241mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Ink drawing of a gardenia with a flower and a branch with pistils, with smaller images of a section of seed-pod and seeds. The reverse of this paper is covered in red chalk. This image was printed in Daniel C. Solander, ‘An Account of the Gardenia: In a Letter to Philip Carteret Webb, Esq; F. R. S.’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 52 (1762), pp. 654-61. Solander explains that the figures were drawn from the specimens in the herbarium in the British Museum. ‘Fig. B’ was drawn from a specimen brought back from China by James Cunningham.
Object history
Daniel C. Solander, ‘An Account of the Gardenia: In a Letter to Philip Carteret Webb, Esq; F. R. S.’, Phil. Trans., vol. 52 (1762), pp. 654-61.
Related fellows
James Cunningham (1662 - 1709, British)
Philip Carteret Webb (1700 - 1770, British) , Antiquary
Carl Linnaeus (1707 - 1778, Swedish) , Botanist
Philip Carteret Webb (1700 - 1770, British) , Antiquary
Carl Linnaeus (1707 - 1778, Swedish) , Botanist
Associated place