Drawings and engravings from the Bartram family papers
Permanent ID:
11632Date:
1760sImage Description:
Assorted illustrations of plants and animals. The bulk of these are scientific engravings of plants, including many species of geranium, and two of the plates are partially hand-colored.Images (1) and (2) are drawings of an insect nest and moths, respectively, and could possibly be attributed to a member of the Bartram family.
Image (3) is an engraving of a turkey pheasant from Gleanings of Natural History, published by George Edwards, who was a friend and correspondent of William Bartram.
Images (4) - (25) are from German botanist Johann Jakob Dillenius' Hortus Elthamensis. John Bartram sent Dillenius specimens for a later work, but whether the elder Bartram owned a complete volume of the Hortus Elthamensis is unknown.
Format:
Drawings; EngravingsDimensions:
Width: 28.5 cm, Height: 17.5 cm (image)Width: 21 cm, Height: 27.5 cm (image)
Width: 27 cm, Height: 41.5 cm (image)
Collection:
Bartram family papersRelated People or Organizations:
John Bartram, 1699-1777 (relates to)William Bartram (relates to)
Dillenius, Johann Jakob, 1687-1747 (artist)
Edwards, George, 1694-1773 (publisher)