Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8395
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Common groundsel or simson
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 common groundsel or simson (Senecio vulgaris) with flower detail.
Transcription
Senecio vulgaris. Park. Minor vulg. C.B. vulg. sive
Erigeron I.B. Erigeron. Ger.
Common Groundsel or simson
Radice alba plurimis fibris donata; Caule erocto
ramoso, concavo, floribus nudis, compositis e flosculis
pentapetaloidibus, style bifido instructis. beminibus
Papposis ubiz provonions.
Ric: Waller Pinx
41
Erigeron I.B. Erigeron. Ger.
Common Groundsel or simson
Radice alba plurimis fibris donata; Caule erocto
ramoso, concavo, floribus nudis, compositis e flosculis
pentapetaloidibus, style bifido instructis. beminibus
Papposis ubiz provonions.
Ric: Waller Pinx
41
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).
Associated place