Knap-weed or matfelon and cornflower or bluebottle
Date
1689-1713
Creator
Richard Waller (1660 - 1715, British) , Naturalist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p36
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 380mm
width (page): 240mm
width (page): 240mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Botanical study of knap-weed or matfelon (Lacea nigra) and cornflower or bluebottle (Cyanus minor vulg.). With flower details and section of stem. Signed ‘Ric: Waller pinx[it]’ (Richard Waller painted this). Unlike on his other drawings, Waller did not record the reference to John Ray’s Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Britannicarum (London, 1690), though the plants are listed at p. 55.
Transcription
46. Jaccea nigra. Ger: Nigra Vulg. Park.
Knap=weed or Matfellon
47. Cyanus I.B. Minor Vulg. Ger. park.
Blew=Bottle.
Ric: Waller pinx.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Knap=weed or Matfellon
47. Cyanus I.B. Minor Vulg. Ger. park.
Blew=Bottle.
Ric: 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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