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Plate, Sarracenia Purpurea, Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, vol. 3, 1837
This is a Plate, Sarracenia Purpurea.
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.
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.
- Sidewall, Pages
- screen printed on paper.
- Gift of Katzenbach and Warren, Inc.
- 1952-88-4
- Drawing, Sketches of Plants, Bloxburgh, Jamaica
- graphite on paper.
- Gift of Louis P. Church.
- 1917-4-431-a
- Sidewall, The Pink and Rose
- block-printed on paper.
- Gift of Clifford Murvine, Reed Wallpaper Company.
- 1977-28-16-a/k
Our curators have highlighted 2 objects that are related to this one.
- The Use Of The Plant In Decorative Design, Book
- lithograph on paper.
- Smithsonian Libraries, NK1560 .L3X 1912.
- 139.2018.8
- Paxton's Magazine Of Botany, Vol. 12
- lithography on paper.
- Smithsonian Libraries, QK1 .P342.
- 139.2018.10
Its dimensions are
L x W: 23.5 × 34.3 cm (9 1/4 × 13 1/2 in.)
