Wild Flowers of Cornwall and Devonshire
Eliza Sharples, Mrs Alexander Peckover (1831 - 1862)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
30 Jul 1846 - 9 Sep 1846
Materials
Leather and paper
Measurements
70 x 20 x 102 mm
Order this imageCollection
Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 781793
Summary
Sketch book or travel journal. Small red leather-bound notebook with metal clasp and pencil sleeve inside front cover. Inscribed in ink 'Eliza Sharples 7th month 1846'. 23 pages with dried flowers affixed to page with details written on the opposite page - latin name, common name, where and when collected. Inscribed on short edge of notebook 'Elixa Sharples 1846'. p1 - Sedum album, White Stonecrop, Redruth, Cornwall 7th mo 30th 1846; p2 - Scabiosa succisa, Devils-bit Scabious, Redruth Cornwall 7th mo 30th 1846; p3 - Teucrium scoradouria, Wood Sage, Redruth, Cornwall, 7th mo 1846; p4 - Lychnis sylvestris, Red Campion, Wood Lychnis, Redruth, Cornwall, 7th mo 1846; p5 - Sedum glaucum, Glaucus Yellow Stonecrop, Launceston Castle, Cornwall, 7th mo 1846; p6 - Erica tetralix, Cross-leaved Heath, Redruth, Cornwall, 7 mo 1846; p7 - Asplenium adiantum nigrum, Black Spleenwort, Tintagell, Cornwall, 7 mo 1846; p8 - Erica cinerea, Common Heath, Fine-leaved Heath, Redruth, Cornwall, 7th mo 1846; p9 - Thymus serpyllum, Wild Thyme, Redruth, Cornwall, 8th mo 1846; p10 - Pedicularis sylvatica, Common Louse Wort, Carnworth Hill near Redruth, Cornwall, 8 mo 1846; p11 - Asplenium marinum, Sea Spleenwort, Tintagell, Cornwall, 7th mo 1846; p12 - Scolopendrium ceterach, Scaly Spleenwort; From Nightingale Valley nr Clifton near Bristol, 7 mo 1846; p13 - Calluna Vulgaris, Common Ling, Carnbre Hill nr Redruth; 13th of 8th mo 1846; p14 - Carbre Hill nr Reduth, Cornwall, 8th mo 1846; p15 - Linaria vulgaris, Common Yellow Toadflax, Penzance, Cornwall, 25th of 8 mo 1846; p16 - Polypodyum vulgare, Common Polypody, St Michaels Mount, Cornwall, 26th of 8th mo 1846; p17 - Lotus corniculatus, Common birdsfoot Trefoil, Lands End, Cornwall, 28th of 8th mo 1846; p18 - Statice armeria, Common Thrift, Sea Gilliflower, Lands End, Cornwall, 28th of 8th mo 1846; p19 - Arenaria maisia, Sea Sandwort, Lands End, Cornwall, 8th mo 28th 1846; p20 - Sedum telepheum, Love Bug, Logan Rock, Cornwall, 28th of 8th mo 1846; p21 - Clematis visalba, Traveller's Joy, Torquay, Devonshire, 15th of 9th mo 1846; p22 - Calcife maritima, Sea Rocket, Teignmouth, Devonshire, 16th of 9th mo 1846; p23 - Cotyledon umbilicus, Common Navelwort, Cornwall, 7th mo 1846.
Makers and roles
Eliza Sharples, Mrs Alexander Peckover (1831 - 1862), collector