'Lychnidea Caroliniana floribus...' mb-artist Sayle St Mary Overie's Church

St Mary Overie's Church

View of people attending Peckham Fair

Middlesex'

A poem in Punch

Also showing traffic on the bridge and boats on the River Thames

'Lychnidea Caroliniana floribus...' mb-artist Sayle St Mary Overie's ChurchBotanical study of Phlox carolina, described by John Martyn in the Historia Plantarum Rariorum (1728 ) and reproduced there as plate 9, (sponsored by Johann Caspar Scheutzer). From a specimen grown at Chelsea Physic Garden, probably from originals gathered by Mark Catesby. Inscribed in ink 'Lychnidea Caroliniana foribus quasi umbellatim dispositis folio lucidis crassis acutus, Martyn. H. R. P. D.' Not signed. Watermarked 'LVG.' Original: watercolour