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Asteraceae - Centaurea nigra 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 130. Hand-coloured engraving by Frederick Polydore Nodder (sheet 125 x 222 mm). 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 & Stearn). 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 & Stearn p. 151; Nissen BBI 1291; Great flower books p. 67; Hunt 721; Henrey 1023; Stafleu & Cowan 5570.
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