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Artist
- Name:
- Edwards, Sydenham Teak
- Dates:
- 1768-1819
- Country:
- UK
Illustration
- Subject:
- Plants
- Technique:
- Metal engraving
- Engraver:
- Warner, Thomas
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
- Source:
- Missouri Botanical Garden Library, The Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- New illustration of the sexual system of Carolus von Linnaeus: and the temple of Flora, or garden of nature
- Author(s):
- Thornton, Robert John
- Published:
- London, 1807
- Open Library:
- View record
Description
View of five varieties of hyacinths in the foreground of a coastal landscape. Hyacinths are native to the eastern Mediterranean and make up a genus of three species in the Asparagaceae family. The flowers depicted in this plate are referred to as follows by the author:
The double white hyacinth has been denominated La Heroine; that which is double and all of a light blue, Globe Terrestre. The Diana Van Epheson is a double white hyacinth, with small red spots; and Velour Pourpre is the dark double blue hyacinth with green at the edges of the petals; and the single dark blue is named Don Gratuit.
Keywords: 1800s, 19th century, Asparagaceae, blue, color, flower, reference book
