Priscilla Susan Bury
Encyclopedia
Liverpool
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- 8 March 1872 Croydon
Croydon
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), was an English
England
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botanist and illustrator
Illustrator
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.
Daughter of a rich Liverpool merchant, she married on 4 March 1830 Edward Bury
Edward Bury
Edward Bury was an English locomotive manufacturer.Edward Bury was born in Salford, Lancashire, the son of a timber merchant, and was educated at Chester. By 1823 he was a partner in Gregson & Bury's steam sawmill at Toxteth Park, Liverpool, but in 1826 he set himself up as an iron-founder and...
(1794-1858), a noted railway engineer. Working with amateur botanist William Roscoe (1753-1831), she published in 1831-1834 A Selection of Hexandrian Plants. The engraving was entrusted to the Londoner Robert Havell, engraver of the John James Audubon
John James Audubon
John James Audubon was a French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter. He was notable for his expansive studies to document all types of American birds and for his detailed illustrations that depicted the birds in their natural habitats...
(1785-1851) plates. The book was carried out in aquatint
Aquatint
Aquatint is an intaglio printmaking technique, a variant of etching.Intaglio printmaking makes marks on the matrix that are capable of holding ink. The inked plate is passed through a printing press together with a sheet of paper, resulting in a transfer of the ink to the paper...
and the 350 plant drawings painted in part by hand. The subscribers to this large folio numbered only 79, mostly from the Lancashire region, Audubon
John James Audubon
John James Audubon was a French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter. He was notable for his expansive studies to document all types of American birds and for his detailed illustrations that depicted the birds in their natural habitats...
being one of them. Bury was also the author of illustrations for The Botanist of Benjamin Maund
Benjamin Maund
Benjamin Maund was a British pharmacist, botanist, printer, bookseller, fellow of the Linnean Society and publisher of the Botanic Garden and The Botanist...
(1790-1863).
Source
- Brent Elliott (2001). Flora. Une histoire illustrée des fleurs de jardin. Delachaux et Niestlé (Lausanne) : 335 p.
External links
- Saint Louis Art Museum General background. Image from Hexandrian Plants
- A Selection of Hexandrian Plants, Belonging to the Natural Orders Amaryllidae and Liliacae (1831-1834) at Botanicus.