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Asteraceae - Vernonia madagascariensis
- Ethulia conyzoides From: The botanical register by Sydenham Teast Edwards and others. London, James Ridgeway, 1823, volume 9 (plate 695). Hand-coloured engraving by S. Watts after M. Hart (sheet 154 x 240 mm). Text enclosed. € 60
Sydenham Teast Edwards was a botanical artist who worked for 27
years for Curtis’s Botanical magazine. In 1815 he started the rival
The botanical register; consisting of coloured figures of exotic plants,
cultivated in British gardens; with their history and mode of treatment. The
text for the first 14 years is by John Bellenden Ker and the volumes 15-33 by
John Lindley as Edward’s botanical register. The principal illustrators
were Edwards himself, M. Hart and Miss Drake and the engravers Sansom, Smith, S.
Watts, White and G. Barclay.* Pritzel 2621; Dunthorne 108; Nissen BBI 2379; Great flower books p. 84; Stafleu & Cowan 1625; Johnston 784. www.meemelink.com · index · Asteraceae |