'Lychnidea Caroliniana floribus...' mb-artist Sayle View from the River Thames

View from the River Thames with boats and passengers on the river

a member of the King's Privy Council

St Mary Overie's Church

'Extraordinary and Fatal combat

A poem in Punch

'Lychnidea Caroliniana floribus...' mb-artist Sayle View from the River ThamesBotanical study of Phlox carolina, described by John Martyn in the Historia Plantarum Rariorum (1728 ) and reproduced there as plate 9, (sponsored by Johann Caspar Scheutzer). From a specimen grown at Chelsea Physic Garden, probably from originals gathered by Mark Catesby. Inscribed in ink 'Lychnidea Caroliniana foribus quasi umbellatim dispositis folio lucidis crassis acutus, Martyn. H. R. P. D.' Not signed. Watermarked 'LVG.' Original: watercolour