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Brassicaceae - Cardamine pratensis From: Flora rustica: exhibiting accurate figures of such plants as are either useful or injurious in husbandry by Thomas Martyn. London, F.P. Nodder, [1793], volume 3 (plate 95). Hand-coloured engraving by Frederick Polydore Nodder (sheet 133 x 207 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). 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. www.meemelink.com · index · Brassicaceae |