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Image number: RS.17648
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Mediterranean ornithogalum
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 Mediterranean ornithogalum Ornithogalum montanum, here referred to as the Mountain ornithogalum. The plant is native to southern Europe. The plate shows flowers and leaves, with two details of the stamens and ovary.
Plate 28 from Edwards’s botanical register…edited by John Lindley, new series v.1, (London, James Ridgway and Sons, 1838). The plate is inscribed ‘28’ above; and below ‘Miss Drake del. Pub by J. Ridgway, 169 Piccadilly May 1838. S. Watts sc.’
In the associated text, the author states that this is: ‘A hardy bulbous plant, for which I have to thank the Hon. W.F. Strangways, who has several times sent it from the choice collection at Abbotsbury…According to Signor Gussone it is a common plant, every where, in the mountain pastures of Sicily…Professor Tenore finds it in the kingdom of Naples…’
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 28 from Edwards’s botanical register…edited by John Lindley, new series v.1, (London, James Ridgway and Sons, 1838). The plate is inscribed ‘28’ above; and below ‘Miss Drake del. Pub by J. Ridgway, 169 Piccadilly May 1838. S. Watts sc.’
In the associated text, the author states that this is: ‘A hardy bulbous plant, for which I have to thank the Hon. W.F. Strangways, who has several times sent it from the choice collection at Abbotsbury…According to Signor Gussone it is a common plant, every where, in the mountain pastures of Sicily…Professor Tenore finds it in the kingdom of Naples…’
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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