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Scrophulariaceae - Veronica beccabunga - Veronica becabunga From: Flora londinensis by William Curtis. London, the author, [1775-] 1777-1798. Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 455 x 317; impression 338 x 233 mm; under passe-partout). Text missing. € 130
Though William Curtis was not one of the great scientists, his name is writ large in English botany.
Trained as an apothecary, he turned to gardening and then the description and
illustration of plants. In his Flora londinensis he presented an
impressive record of wildflowers growing within ten miles of London, including
many no longer found there; and in his Botanical Magazine (1786 to date)
he offered those exotics which Englishmen were pleased to grow in their gardens.
… this splendid, complicated, basic English flora … (Hunt). Most of the plates
are unsigned, but the artists involved were James Sowerby, Sydenham Teast
Edwards and William Kilburn.* Pritzel 2004; Dunthorne 87; Blunt p. 185; Nissen BBI 439; Great flower books p. 54; Hunt 650; Henrey 595; Stafleu & Cowan 1286. |
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