Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.17634
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    Heart-leaf flame pea

    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
    Subject
    Biology
       > Botany
    Content object
    nature
       > plant
          > flower
    Description
    Botanical study of the Heart-leaf flame pea, Chorozema cordatum, here referred to as Mr. Mangles’s Chorozema. The plant is native to Australia. The plate shows flowers and leaves, with three sectional details.

    Plate 10 from Edwards’s botanical register…edited by John Lindley, new series v.1, (London, James Ridgway and Sons, 1838). The plate is inscribed ‘P.10’ above; and below ‘Miss Drake Delt. Pubd. by J. Ridgway, Piccadilly Feby.1 1838.’

    In the associated text, the author states that this is: ‘A pretty new species of this handsome genus, native of the Swan River Colony, and raised in the garden of Robert Mangles, Esq., of Sunning Hill, by whom it has been liberally distributed…the drawing was made in April, 1837.’

    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.
    Associated place
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       > Oceania
          > Australia
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