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Double coconut or Seychelles-Island cocoa-nut.. Lodoicea sechellarum

Double coconut palm tree or Seychelles-Island cocoa-nut. . Female tree at left, male tree at right.. . Illustration by WJ Hooker, engraved by Swan. Handcolored copperplate engraving from William Curtis's "The Botanical Magazine" 1827.. . William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865) was an English botanist, writer and artist. He was Regius Professor of Botany at Glasgow University, and editor of Curtis' "Botanical Magazine" from 1827 to 1865. In 1841, he was appointed director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, and was succeeded by his son Joseph Dalton. Hooker documented the fern and orchid crazes that shook England in the mid-19th century in books such as "Species Filicum" (1846) and "A Century of Orchidaceous Plants" (1849). A gifted botanical artist himself, he wrote and illustrated "Flora Exotica" (1823) and several volumes of the "Botanical Magazine" after 1827.

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Double coconut or Seychelles-Island cocoa-nut.. Lodoicea sechellarum

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Double coconut palm tree or Seychelles-Island cocoa-nut. . Female tree at left, male tree at right.. . Illustration by WJ Hooker, engraved by Swan. Handcolored copperplate engraving from William Curtis's "The Botanical Magazine" 1827.. . William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865) was an English botanist, writer and artist. He was Regius Professor of Botany at Glasgow University, and editor of Curtis' "Botanical Magazine" from 1827 to 1865. In 1841, he was appointed director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, and was succeeded by his son Joseph Dalton. Hooker documented the fern and orchid crazes that shook England in the mid-19th century in books such as "Species Filicum" (1846) and "A Century of Orchidaceous Plants" (1849). A gifted botanical artist himself, he wrote and illustrated "Flora Exotica" (1823) and several volumes of the "Botanical Magazine" after 1827.

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3078 x 5065 px | 44.6 MB

Taille d'impression:

26.1 x 42.9 cm | 10.3 x 16.9 in (300 dpi)

Mots clés:

ANTIQUAIRE • ARBRE • ARBRES • BOTANIQUE • DOUBLE • EMPREINTE • FLEUR • FLEURS • FRAVURE • GRAVURE • ILLUSTRATION • JARDIN DE MAISON • JARDIN • LIBRAIRIE D'OCCASION • PAUME • PLANTE • REVUE (PERIODIQUE) • VEGETAUX