Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8368
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Small panicled oat grass and meadow grass with reed-like panicle
Date
1689
Creator
Richard Waller (1660 - 1715, British) , naturalist
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 380mm
width (painting): 240mm
width (painting): 240mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Botanical study of small panicled oat grass (Gramen paniculatum bromoides minus paniculis) and meadow grass with reed-like panicle (Gramen pratense panicula fere arundinacea) with flower details.
Transcription
Gram: Paniculatum Bromoides minus Paniculis
aristatis unam partem spectantibus Ray. No. 13.p189
Small panicled oat grass with drops
Gramen pratense panicula fere arundinacea IB Ray p189. No.so
Meadow grass with a reed like panicle
In gramen Maurorum spica longissima
Ric: Waller Pinx
10
aristatis unam partem spectantibus Ray. No. 13.p189
Small panicled oat grass with drops
Gramen pratense panicula fere arundinacea IB Ray p189. No.so
Meadow grass with a reed like panicle
In gramen Maurorum spica longissima
Ric: Waller Pinx
10
Object history
From a series of watercolours of English grasses and wild flowers by Richard Waller (MS/131). The paintings were possibly intended as illustrations for a catalogue of plants by John Ray (1627-1705).
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