Prickly sow-thistle with less jagged leaves
Date
1689-1713
Creator
Richard Waller (1660 - 1715, British) , Naturalist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p42
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 380mm
width (page): 240mm
width (page): 240mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Botanical study of prickly sow-thistle with less jagged leaves (Sonchus asper non laciniatus). With flower detail. 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 this plant is listed at p. 42, no. 4.
Transcription
54. Sonchus asper non laciniatus C.B. asper Ger.
Prickly Sowthistle with less jagged Leaves.
Ric: Waller pinx.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Prickly Sowthistle with less jagged Leaves.
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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