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John Tradescant (the younger.)]

John Tradescant (the younger.)][Physick Gardener to Cha.s I.]

[n.d. c.1800]
Proof before letters. Stipple with etching, sheet 245 x 160mm (9¾ x 6¼"). Trimmed within plate and glued to album sheet.
Half length portrait of John Tradescant the younger (1608–62) with shoulder length curled hair and short beard. His left hand sits at chest, holding key on chain. Tradescant was a botanist and gardener and son of John Tradescant the Elder. The standard author abbreviation Trad. is applied to species he described. His burial place is housed in the deconsecrated church of St Mary-at-Lambeth, the Garden Museum at Lambeth.
W 2966-3.
[Ref: 61117]  £95.00


 

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