Priscilla Susan Bury

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Priscilla Susan Bury (born January 12, 1799 in Rainhill , † March 8, 1872 in Fairfield near Liverpool ) was a British botanical illustrator .

biography

Priscilla Susan Bury, nee Falkner, was the daughter of Bridgett Tarleton († 1819) and Edward Dean Falkner (1750-1825), a wealthy trader from Liverpool . In 1830 she married the railroad engineer Edward Bury (1794-1858); the couple had at least three sons between 1831 and 1835.

Bury began drawing the exotic plants in her childhood home in Fairfield. This corresponded to the Victorian idea , according to which this occupation for women "a genteel, diverting and instructive study [so] that the fair sex could find amusement" can find ") is. She was neither trained as a draftsman nor as a botanist.

Drawings of lilies appeared in 1829 with Bury's lithographed drawings and short texts based on her notes. This publication was supported by William Swainson . The lithographs were made by Charles Joseph Hullmandel . The series A Selection of Hexandrian Plants was published between 1831 and 1834 , engraved by Robert Havell . This series is considered to be the most detailed and unusual representation of plants with six stamens in the 19th century. The representations were partly printed in color and partly colored manually. After 1836, Priscilla Bury contributed eight drawings to The Botanist by Benjamin Maund and John Stevens Henslow and published twelve plates with photographic prints of their drawings in 1860–1861, which were reprinted in 1865 and 1869, expanded. Some of her publications appeared under the name Mrs. Edward Bury . In 1860, Priscilla Bury published the Recollections of Edward Bury as a private print in memory of her late husband.

gallery

  • Hippeastrum × johnsonii

  • Lily in A Selection of Hexandrian Plants

  • Lilium canadense

  • Lilium brownii var. Viridulum

  • Hippeastrum Striatum

Web links

Commons : Priscilla Susan Bury  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Priscilla Susan Bury. Science Museum Group Collection, accessed January 30, 2020 .
  2. ^ A b Priscilla Susan Bury - Audubon House Gallery of Natural History. In: audubonhouse.org. Retrieved February 21, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Priscilla Susan Bury (1799-1872). In: aradergalleries.com. November 19, 2004, accessed February 21, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Bury, Priscilla Susan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British botanist and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH Rainhill
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1872
Place of death Fairfield, Liverpool