A print of a Tasconia Pinnatistipula, a species of flower, spread across two pages vertically. Two pale fuscia flowers are at center. One is a closed bulb and the other has bloomed showing the green and yellow pistil and stamen within the flower. Dark green pistils peak through the closed petals. A dark, hunter green stem travels along the right side of the pages with vines and the two flowers budding off of it. Below the closed flower is a green tomatoe hanging from the plant. On the bottom of the page in a script font reads 'Tasconia Pinnatistipula.'

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Plate, Tasconia Pinnatistipula , Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, vol. 1, 1834

This is a Plate, Tasconia Pinnatistipula .

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Smithsonian Libraries and Archives as part of Botanical Lessons.

It is dated 1834. Its medium is printed paper. It is a part of the department.

Sir Joseph Paxton may be more well known today as the designer of the 1851 Crystal Palace exhibition building in London, but his main occupation at that time was as Head Gardener of Chatsworth House, home to the Dukes of Devonshire since 1549. Paxton was also interested in publishing and landscape and greenhouse design. These passions combined in Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, which was the third title he developed, running from 1834 to 1849. The pages selected here focus on the lavish illustrations that accompanied the detailed texts, which shared the newest developments in botany for amateur and professional gardeners alike.

It is credited Smithsonian Libraries.

A copper and brass kettle hanging from its wrought iron tripod stand. The kettle is round, with an angular spout and tall flared collar around the lid, three stubby brass legs and brass handle fittings supporting a horizontal ebony handle. The kettle is suspended from two hooks curving down from the arched arm of the stand. The arm continues down as one of the three legs of the stand. The legs are linked at their tops by a band of wrought iron surrounding a copper burner beneath the kettle, and, halfway down the legs, by twining supports surrounding a central spike with spiraling finial. The stand is wrapped with grapevine-like tendrils of wrought iron around the middle of the legs and lower part of the arm.

Kettle And Stand (England)
copper, brass, ebony (kettle), wrought iron (stand).
Museum purchase from the Decorative Arts Acquisition Fund.
1990-167-1-a/d

Drawing, Sketches of Plants, Bloxburgh, Jamaica

Drawing, Sketches of Plants, Bloxburgh, Jamaica
graphite on paper.
Gift of Louis P. Church.
1917-4-431-a

Paxton's Magazine Of Botany, Vol. 12
lithography on paper.
Smithsonian Libraries, QK1 .P342.
139.2018.10

Its dimensions are

L x W (double spread - book open - vertical orientation): 34.3 × 23.5 cm (13 1/2 × 9 1/4 in.)

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Botanical Lessons.

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Accession Number 23.2018.5
Object ID 2318793600