Description | Botanical study of Tropaeolum majus, common name Indian cress. This painting is reproduced, in mirror image, in the Society of Gardeners' book 'Catalogus Plantarum' (1730) (plate 3, central figure). A specimen of this plant was noted in 'A catalogue of the fifty plants from Chelsea-Garden, presented to the Royal Society ... 1746. Pursuant to the direction of Sir Hans Sloane' by Joseph Miller, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society vol. 46, issue 491 (1746), p.43.
Orange flowering plant showing flowers open and in bud, with rounded green leaves. Inscribed in ink 'Acriviola maxima odorata flore pleno'. Not signed. |