Credit: ©The Royal Society
Image number: RS.17631
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Scarlet kunzea
Date
1838
Creator
S Watts (British) , Engraver
After
Sarah Anne Drake (1803 - 1857, British) , Illustrator
Object type
Library reference
49461
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 247 mm
width (print): 150mm
width (print): 150mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Botanical study of the Scarlet kunzea Kunzea baxteri, here referred to as the Small-spiked callistemon Callistemon microstachyum. The plant is native to Australia. The plate shows a flower spike and leaves, with a sectional detail of the plant’s ovary.
Plate 7 from Edwards’s botanical register…edited by John Lindley, new series v.1, (London, James Ridgway and Sons, 1838). The plate is inscribed ‘7’ above; and below ‘Miss Drake del. Pub. by J. Ridgway 169 Piccadilly Feby.1 1838. S Watts. sc.’
In the associated text, the author states that this is: ‘A New Holland plant, which flowered for the first time in Europe in the garden of William Harrison Esq., of Cheshunt, in March, 1837, at which time it was exhibited at one of the meetings of the Horticultural Society in Regent Street, where it gained a medal.’
John Lindley (1799-1865) British botanist and horticulturalist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1828.
Sarah Anne Drake (1803-1857), British botanical artist, was a long-term associate of the Lindley family and a prolific illustrator for James Lindley.
Plate 7 from Edwards’s botanical register…edited by John Lindley, new series v.1, (London, James Ridgway and Sons, 1838). The plate is inscribed ‘7’ above; and below ‘Miss Drake del. Pub. by J. Ridgway 169 Piccadilly Feby.1 1838. S Watts. sc.’
In the associated text, the author states that this is: ‘A New Holland plant, which flowered for the first time in Europe in the garden of William Harrison Esq., of Cheshunt, in March, 1837, at which time it was exhibited at one of the meetings of the Horticultural Society in Regent Street, where it gained a medal.’
John Lindley (1799-1865) British botanist and horticulturalist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1828.
Sarah Anne Drake (1803-1857), British botanical artist, was a long-term associate of the Lindley family and a prolific illustrator for James Lindley.
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