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TYPE: | Image |
DATE: | 16th June 1748 |
ARTIST: | ‘The Physic Garden, Chelsea: a plan view. Engraving by John Haynes, 1751’. |
AUTHOR: | Pehr Kalm (1716-1779) |
COLLECTION(S): | Wellcome Images, No: Iconographic Collection 662588i. |
ADDED: | 18/01/2022 |
iFELLOW: | Viveka Hansen |
JOURNALS ETC: | Linnaeus Apostles Global Science & Adventure, Volume 3, Book 1, Page 285 |
CONTENT: | This watercolour plan – published in 1751 – is an informative comparison of the naturalist Pehr Kalm’s observations three years earlier, when he visited Hans Sloane, who since 1713 had been the owner of this manor house. Kalm was one of numerous naturalists, botanists and other individuals of the time, who were associated with the garden and its wide range of native and non-native plants. From one of his visits in 1748 he noted: ‘In Chelsea lies the renowned botanical garden, which is here in London called the Chelsea Physic Garden, it is arranged for the instruction in botany of pharmacists’ apprentices and possesses, in respect of herbs, a very large collection of all rare foreign plants, so that it is said in that respect to rival the botanical gardens in both Paris and Leiden: it is at least believed to surpass them in North American plants.’ On other occasions, he obscured furnaces in orangeries, thermometers, arrangement of herb collections and a new invention, in the form of vertical windows on small greenhouses in the garden. |
GEO-LOCATION: | WGS84(51.48416, -0.16215) |