| Asteraceae - Chrysanthemum leucanthemum From: Flora rustica: exhibiting accurate figures of such plants as are either useful or injurious in husbandry by Thomas Martyn. London, F.P. Nodder, 1794, volume 4 (plate 109). Hand-coloured engraving by Frederick Polydore Nodder (sheet 133 x 222 mm). Slightly browned. Text enclosed.
€ 35
Frederick Polydore Nodder (fl.
1777-1800), Botanic Painter to Queen Charlotte, made illustrations for Erasmus
Darwin’s Botanic Garden, and a number of delicate little plates for T.
Martyn’s Flora Rustica … (Blunt). The plates were not only drawn and
engraved by Nodder, but also coloured under his direction. Thomas Martyn was
professor of botany at Cambridge.* Pritzel 5929; Dunthorne 196; Blunt p. 151; Nissen BBI 1291; Great flower books p. 67; Hunt 721; Henrey 1023; Stafleu & Cowan 5570.
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