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C1813
Banksia Dryandra Longifolia
Artist:
Sydenham Edwards (1768 - 1819)
This beautiful Banksia was known as Dryandra longifolia until 2007 until all Dryandra species were transferred to Banksia by Austin Mast and Kevin Thiele. As the name Banksia longifolia had already been published as a nomen nudum, Mast and Thiele … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Banksia Dryandra Longifolia
Date:
C1813
Artist:
Sydenham Edwards (1768 - 1819)
Condition:
In good condition with folds as issued.
Technique:
Copper engraving with original hand colouring
Image Size:
245mm
x 210mm
Frame Size:
510mm
x 450mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1813
Description:
This beautiful Banksia was known as Dryandra longifolia until 2007 until all Dryandra species were transferred to Banksia by Austin Mast and Kevin Thiele.
As the name Banksia longifolia had already been published as a nomen nudum, Mast and Thiele were forced to choose a new specific epithet; their choice, “prolata”, is from the Latin prolatus (“elongate”), in reference to the long, narrow leaves already described by longifolia.
Binomial name: Banksia prolata (syn. Dryandra longifolia)
Distribution: WA south west
From: Curtis, W., Botanical Magazine
References:
Sitwell, S. Fine Flower Books 1700-1900. New York 1990 pp.156–157.
Nissen, C. Die Botanische Buchillustration. Stuttgart 1966 2350.
Plesch, A. The Magnificent Botanical Library of the Stiftung Fur Botanik Vaduz Liechtenstein.. London 1975 164.
Henrey, B. British Botanical and Horticultural Literature before 1800…London 1975 472.
Blunt, W. The Art of Botanical Illustration London 1950 pp. 211-217.
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 3164201
State Library New South Wales: CALL NUMBERS RB/DS580.5/2
State Library Victoria: RARES 580.5 C94
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Artist:
Sydneham Edwards (1768-1819)
Initially worked for Curtis’s Botanical Magzine, until a dispute with the publishers when he started his own rival magazine The Botanical Register.
He was born in Monmouthshire, a from an early age demonstrated a precocious talent for drawing and when only 11 years old had copied plates from Flora Londinensis. A friend of William Curtis, the publisher visited the Edwards and recommended the boy to Curtis. Curtis proceeded to have Edwards trained in both botany and botanical illustration. Edwards was a prolific talent and between 1787 and 1815 he produced over 1,700 watercolours for Curtis’s Botanical Magazine. He established The Botanical Register in 1815 after a disagreement with John Sims, Curtis’s editor.
