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
width (print): 150mm
Subject
Content object
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.
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.
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