Spindle, wood sorrel and white flax
The Reverend William Keble Martin spent many years of his life collecting, studying and drawing plants. This drawing is a preliminary plate for inclusion in his book The Concise British Flora in Colour published in 1965. It corresponds to plates 19 and 20 in the final work.
The plants depicted are spindle (Euonymus europaeus) drawn from a tree at Coffinswell June and October 1926, wood sorrel (Oxalis acetosella) and white flax (Linum catharticum). RAMM also has his herbarium collection (pressed plants).
Purchased with assistance from the Friends of RAMM.
The plants depicted are spindle (Euonymus europaeus) drawn from a tree at Coffinswell June and October 1926, wood sorrel (Oxalis acetosella) and white flax (Linum catharticum). RAMM also has his herbarium collection (pressed plants).
Purchased with assistance from the Friends of RAMM.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 99/2015/32
- Collection Class
- Drawings
- Medium
- watercolour, ink and pencil on paper
- Common Name
- spindle, wood sorrel and white flax
- Simple Name
- drawing
- Inscription Transcription
- 20; OXALIS ACETOSELLA (SORREL): LINUM CATHARTICUM X10; LINUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM
- Production Person Initials
- William Keble
- Production Person Surname
- Martin
- Production Year Low
- c1900
- Production Year High
- 1965
