Credit: ©The Royal Society
Image number: RS.17632
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Fringe lily
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): 247mm
width (print): 150mm
width (print): 150mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Botanical study of the Fringe lily Thysanotus multiflorus, here referred to as the Proliferous thysanotus Thysanotus proliferus. The plant is native to Australia. The plate shows flowers and leaves, with two details, one sectional, of the plant’s reproductive organs.
Plate 8 from Edwards’s botanical register…edited by John Lindley, new series v.1, (London, James Ridgway and Sons, 1838). The plate is inscribed ‘P.8’ above; and below ‘Miss Drake Delt. Pubd. by J. Ridgway, Piccadilly Feby.1 1838.’
In the associated text, the author states that this is: ‘Another Swan River plant, also raised in the garden of Robert Mangles, Esq., of Sunning Hill, where it is cultivated with great success.’
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 8 from Edwards’s botanical register…edited by John Lindley, new series v.1, (London, James Ridgway and Sons, 1838). The plate is inscribed ‘P.8’ above; and below ‘Miss Drake Delt. Pubd. by J. Ridgway, Piccadilly Feby.1 1838.’
In the associated text, the author states that this is: ‘Another Swan River plant, also raised in the garden of Robert Mangles, Esq., of Sunning Hill, where it is cultivated with great success.’
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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