'Senna spuria mimosae'
Date
mid 18th century
Creator
Jacob van Huysum (1682 - 1745, Dutch) , Painter
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
height: 375mm
width: 265mm
width: 265mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Botanical study of a specimen of senna. This plant is native throughout the tropics. Painting shows a cut-off branch of yellow flowering plant, with flowers open and in bud, and green pinnate leaves
Painting 28 from MS/109, a collection of botanical paintings by Jacob van Huysum and William Sartorius.
Inscribed in ink 'Senna spuria Mimosae Foliis, frutescens & procumbens, flore maximo siliquis glabris Houst.' Not signed.
The plant was first sent to Britain from Veracruz, Mexico, by Dr William Houstoun.
Jacob van Huysum (1682-1745), Dutch botanical painter, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society. He produced most of the 50 illustrations for the Historia Plantarum Rariorum (London: 1728-38) written by John Martyn FRS, and all the drawings for Philip Miller’s Catalogus Plantarum (1730), an index of trees, shrubs, plants and flowers.
Painting 28 from MS/109, a collection of botanical paintings by Jacob van Huysum and William Sartorius.
Inscribed in ink 'Senna spuria Mimosae Foliis, frutescens & procumbens, flore maximo siliquis glabris Houst.' Not signed.
The plant was first sent to Britain from Veracruz, Mexico, by Dr William Houstoun.
Jacob van Huysum (1682-1745), Dutch botanical painter, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society. He produced most of the 50 illustrations for the Historia Plantarum Rariorum (London: 1728-38) written by John Martyn FRS, and all the drawings for Philip Miller’s Catalogus Plantarum (1730), an index of trees, shrubs, plants and flowers.
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