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Chrysoplenium alternifolium, 1790

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Identifier: Coll-10/1/242

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Scope and Contents

Chrysoplenium alternifolium. Coloured line engraving. 1790. Sowerby, James, 1757-1822, Artist.

Published in: Sir Edward Smith and James Sowerby, English Botany. 2nd ed., vol. 3 (1836).

Note: Plate 593. Published as plate 54 'Chrysoplenium alternifolium / Alternate-leaved Golden Saxifrage' in Sowerby's first edition (1790). Pencil annotation: 'Chrysoplenium oppositifolium [sic, a different plant] grows abundantly opposite', ie St Bernard's Well Coll-10/1/241.

Dates

  • Creation: 1790

Creator

Language of Materials

English

Conditions Governing Access

Open.

Full Extent

1 print ; 16.8 x 9.2 cm

Additional Description

Bibliography

Sir Edward Smith and James Sowerby, English Botany. 2nd ed., vol. 3 (1836)

Physical Facet

coloured line engraving

Dimensions

16.8 x 9.2 cm

General

Plate 593. Published as plate 54 'Chrysoplenium alternifolium / Alternate-leaved Golden Saxifrage' in Sowerby's first edition (1790). Pencil annotation: 'Chrysoplenium oppositifolium [sic, a different plant] grows abundantly opposite', ie St Bernard's Well Coll-10/1/241

Repository Details

Repository Details

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