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C1808
Embothrium speciosissimum. The Waratah.
Artist:
Sydneham Edwards (1768 - 1819)
Common names Waratah or New South Wales WaratahModern binomial name Telopea speciosissimaFirst scientific description 1810 Robert Brown Distribution NSW The Waratah was first described by botanist James Edward Smith in A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland, 1793 from “very fine dried specimens sent by … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Embothrium speciosissimum. The Waratah.
Date:
C1808
Artist:
Sydneham Edwards (1768 - 1819)
Condition:
In good condition with folds as issued.
Technique:
Hand coloured copper engraving.
Image Size:
225mm
x 200mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1808
Description:
Common names Waratah or New South Wales Waratah
Modern binomial name Telopea speciosissima
First scientific description 1810 Robert Brown
Distribution NSW
The Waratah was first described by botanist James Edward Smith in A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland, 1793 from “very fine dried specimens sent by Mr. White’. He gave the species its original binomial name of Embothrium speciosissimum. Robert Brown suggested the genus Telopea for it in 1809, which was published in 1810.
Distribution NSW
From Curtis’s The Botanical Magazine, vol. 28: t. 1128
Biography:
Sydneham Edwards (1768-1819)
Initially worked for Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, 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.
