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- 032-003432766
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- 032-003432766
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‘Miscellaneous Drawings of various Plants, Flowers, and Fruits in Indian-Ink, and colours, by different hands’, from the collection of Sir Hans Sloane
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Album of drawings of plants by miscellaneous hands and of differing origin and date.
The first 99 drawings in this album are those of Philippine plants sent by the Jesuit Georg Joseph Kamel (1661-1706) to James Petiver (1665-1718), many of which were used as the basis for the engravings in Petiver’s Gazophylacii naturae et artis (London: C. Bateman, 1702–6). Their names and descriptions were included as an appendix to the third volume of John Ray’s Historia plantarum (London: S. Smith and B. Walford, 1704). References to each work (‘G.N.’ or ‘Ray’) have been added by Petiver to the drawings. Some of the drawings were printed in Petiver’s English Herball (1713) or his Opera (1767) edited by James Empson.
Other drawings of plants in this album may be associated with Andreas Arnold (1656-1694), Edward Bulkley, Mark Catesby (1682-1749), James Cuninghame (ca. 1665–1709), Jacobus van Huysum (1687/9–1740), Everard Kick, (1636-after 1701), Leonard Plukenet (1642-1706), Johannes Teyler (1648–1712), and John White (fl. 1577–1593).
The drawings are listed as numbered items. The pages are not numbered. Folio number refers to the digital foliation.
Only those items which could be confidently identified have been given individual descriptions.
[f. 2]
3: Drawing of ‘libella Mariana’; Ink; Sent to Petiver by Rev. Hugh Jones, from Maryland, as indicated in Petiver’s Gazophylacii naturae et artis, Tab. XIV, figs 1-2.
4: Drawing of ‘Adianthum nigrum’; Ink; Printed in Petiver’s Gazophylacii naturae et artis, Tab. XLVIII, 11.
6: Drawing of ‘Adianthum Philippense’; Ink; Georg Joseph Kamel, which he sent to both John Ray and James Petiver; Printed in Petiver’s Gazophylacii naturae et artis, Tab. IV, 4
[f. 48]
100: A drawing of a decorative flower arrangement in a vase; Pencil; Dated 1717; Signed by Jacobus van Huysum.
[f. 52]
103: Drawing of a plant in a pot; Ink, with measurement; Inscribed: ‘from the top of the pot 5 foot high’; Part of this plant was reproduced in Plukenet’s Phytographia (1694), Tab. 314, fig. 1.
[f. 57]
113: Drawing of a species of Aristolochia; Ink; James Cuninghame, a surgeon who travelled to the East Indies and China. He recorded that he had seen a dried specimen of its flower near Johor (in the Malay Peninsula) ‘Florem hunc siccum vidi in Navi Danica apud Jehor. Januar. 20, 1699’.
[f. 61]
119: A frame with some drawings of plants; Pencil; for Petiver’s English Herbal.
[ff. 67-68]
134-135: Studies of Brazilian plants; Pen and ink; Leonard Plukenet, copied from Georg Marcgraf Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (Leiden: F. Hackius and Amsterdam: L. Elzevier, 1648), the section on ‘Historia plantarum’.
[ff. 77-78]
156-157: Studies of plants from Brazil; Pen and ink; Copied from Marcgraf, Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648) and elsewhere by Leonard Plukenet.
[f. 81]
160: A whole Plantain and a half sliced to show the inside; Pen and ink, graphite with watercolour and bodycolour; After John White (British Museum P & D, 1906,0509,1.40 SL,5270.25); Inscribed ‘platano’.
[f. 84]
163: A drawing of a bud and flower of ‘Tigridis flos (tiger flower)’ [Tigridia pavonia]; Watercolour; Probably copied from the drawing associated with John White (British Museum P & D, SL,5270.64), which is likely based on T. Theodorus, Eicones plantarum se stirpium (Frankfurt a. M.: N. Bassaeus, 1590).
[f. 87]
166: A drawing of Auricula ursi rubra (primrose); Watercolour and bodycolour; Possibly copied from the drawing in the album associated with John White (British Museum P&D, SL,5270.67).
[f. 88]
167: A drawing of a plant called ‘Sassafras’ [Sassafras albidum] and the tiger swallowtail [Papilio glaucus]; Watercolour; Inscribed ‘Mr Catesby’ in ink; The plant and the butterfly were depicted separately in Mark Catesby, The Natural History of Carolina, vol. 1, tab. 55 and vol. 2, tab. 83 and the butterfly by John White (British Museum, P & D, 1906,0509.1.66).
[f. 102]
195: A study of three stems with leaves; Watercolour over graphite; Signed in ink ‘Evd Kikius fec[it].’, namely Everard Kick.
[f. 104]
199. A drawing of a ‘snake plant’; Watercolour and bodycolour over graphite; Insrcibed in Petiver’s hand: ‘Growes 5 or 6 foot high / The Zeiloan Slang Cruit i.e. snake plant’. This plant is mentioned in a letter to Petiver from Edward Bulkley 12 February 1702-3, ‘I have nowe sent you 2 or 3 with one figure of Zeilon plants the leafe green, variegated with white, the flower called by the Dutch the slang Cruit, i.e. snake plants’ (Sloane MS 3321, f. 110).
[f. 107]
203: A drawing of ‘Echino melocactus’; Watercolour; After Daniel Frankcom’s drawing in the ‘Beaufort Florilegium’, both based on an image in Jan Commelin, Rariorum Plantarum Horti Medici Amstelodamensis Descriptio et Icones (Amsterdam: P. & J. Blaeu & Abrahamum à Someren, 1697), vol. 1, fig. 55; The note is in Hans Sloane’s hand.
[f. 110]
207: An etching of a rose; Line and stipple engraving, inked à la poupée (green, pale red, purple-red); From a larger print by Johannes Teyler.
[f. 113]
211: A drawing of Sifynrithin Majus and Sifynrithin Minus (irises), the second with a bulb and roots); Watercolour; Possibly copied from the drawing in the album associated with John White (British Museum P&D, SL,5270.62).
[f. 119]
220. A drawing of an ‘Everlasting Apple / a Guinea’; Graphite and watercolour; The inscription is in James Petiver’s hand.; The drawing was sent to him from Edward Bulkley, a surgeon for the East India Company, with a letter of 24 January 1706, ‘a figure of a small sort of Gourd gathered on the Coast of Guinea and presented to me by name of the everlasting apple’ (Sloane MS 3321 f. 185).
[f. 121]
224: A drawing of a fused and twisted asparagus plant; Watercolour; Sent to the scholar and astronomer, Andreas Arnold in Nuremberg.
[f. 124]
228: Drawing of a common milkweed; Pen and ink and graphite with watercolour; After John White (British Museum P & D, 1906,0509.1.37, SL,5270.26); Inscribed: ‘wisakon’.
Digitisation and cataloguing funded by the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge.
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- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
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- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_5289 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Dutch
English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1799
- Date Range:
- 16th century-18th century
- Era:
- CE
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: paper
Dimensions: approximately 540 x 380mm
Foliation: pages are not foliated or numbered. Individual drawings have been numbered and were previously called folios.
Binding: brown leather
- Custodial History:
- The manuscripts of Sir Hans Sloane were purchased at his death from his executors by the Act of Parliament which established the British Museum in 1753.
- Former External References:
- XLII.A
- Source of Acquisition:
- The Sloane Manuscripts were held by the British Museum Department of Manuscripts until 1973 after which they were transferred to the British Library.
- Arrangement:
- The drawings in this volume were arranged and rearranged at various times. Evidence of this rearranging can be seen on some blank pages where corners of folios have remained stuck when the folio was moved elsewhere.
- Finding Aids:
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British Museum Department of Manuscripts, Index to the Additional Manuscripts, with those of the Egerton Collection, Preserved in the British Museum, and acquired in the years 1783-1835, London 1849
Entry in the British Library Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts, Nos 5137-5407, Volume 21, f 306, under reference 5289, available in the Manuscripts Reading Room, where the volume is described as: ‘Miscellaneous Drawings of various Plants, Flowers, and Fruits in Indian-Ink, and colors, by different hands. Many of them have references to Ray’s work. (259 in number.) Large Folio.’
Sloane’s handwritten catalogues to his library may be found at Sloane MS 3972 A-D.
- Publications:
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Discussed, with some reproductions (drawings 160, 167 and 228), in Ute Kuhlemann, 'Between Reproduction, Invention and Propaganda: Theodor de Bry's Engravings after John White's Watercolours', in Kim Sloan (ed.), A New World. England's first view of America (London: British Museum, 2007).
Charles E. Jarvis, 'The Collecting Activities of James Cuninghame FRS on the Voyage of Tuscan to China (Amoy) between 1697 and 1699', Notes and Records of the Royal Society (2015).
Sebestian Kroupa, 'Georg Joseph Kamel (1661-1706): A Jesuit Pharmacist at the Frontiers of Colonial Empires' (PhD Dissertation, Cambridge, 2019).
Ad Stijnman and Simon Turner, Johannes Teyler and Dutch Colour Prints, The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700 (Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel and Amsterdam: Sound & Vision Publishers and Rijksmuseum, 2017).
For more information on drawing 199, see Anna Winterbottom, ‘Medicine and Botany in the Making of Madras, 1680–1720’, in The East India Company and the Natural World, ed. by Vinita Damodaran, Anna Winterbottom and Alan Lester (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. 35-57.
For more information on drawing 220, see Anna Winterbottom, Hybrid Knowledge in the Early East India Company World (Baskingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. 126-27.
Mark Catesby, The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, Containing the Figures of Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, Insects, and Plants, Particularly the Forest-Trees, Shrubs, and Other Plants, Not Hitherto Described, or Very Incorrectly Figured by Authors (London: the author, 1731-43).
James Petiver, Gazophylacii naturae et artis (London: C. Bateman, 1702–6).
James Petiver, Plants already engraved in Mr Petiver’s English Herbal (London, 1714).
James Petiver, Opera (London: J. Millan, 1767)
Leonard Plukenet, Phytographia (London: the author, 1691-1694)
John Ray, Historia plantarum (London: S. Smith and B. Walford, 1704)
For more information on item 203, see Hans Sloane, A voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica: with the natural history of the herbs and trees, four-footed beasts, fishes, birds, insects, reptiles, &c. of the last of those islands; to which is prefix'd, an introduction, wherein is an account of the inhabitants, air, waters, diseases, trade, &c. of that place, with some relations concerning the neighbouring continent, and islands of America, 2 vols (London: the author, 1707-1725)
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- Contributors to this catalogue: Arnold Hunt, Sebastien Kroupa, Charlie Jarvis, Sachiko Kusukawa, Ad Stijnman, Kim Sloan.