Ox-eye daisy
Date
1689-1713
Creator
Richard Waller (1660 - 1715, British) , Naturalist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p40
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 380mm
width (page): 240mm
width (page): 240mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Botanical study of ox-eye daisy ['the great daizis or ox-eye'] with flower detail and section of stem. Signed ‘Ric: Waller pinx[it]’ (Richard Waller painted this). The top part of the page is defective, so the Latin name is lost, though we know from the English name that it would have been ‘Bellis Major C.B. Ger.’, according to John Ray’s Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Britannicarum (London, 1690), p. 56, no. 2.
Waller supplied the names for the plants he had depicted from Ray’s Synopsis, which collates the names for the same plant across different authorities. ‘C.B.’ stands for Caspar Bauhin’s Pinax (1623) and ‘Ger.’ for John Gerard’s Herbal corrected by Thomas Johnson (1633).
Waller supplied the names for the plants he had depicted from Ray’s Synopsis, which collates the names for the same plant across different authorities. ‘C.B.’ stands for Caspar Bauhin’s Pinax (1623) and ‘Ger.’ for John Gerard’s Herbal corrected by Thomas Johnson (1633).
Transcription
xxxxx[cut out] Ger. The Great Daize or Ox eye.
Ric: Waller pinx.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
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.
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Richard Waller (1660 - 1715, British) , Naturalist
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