Priscilla Susan Bury, born Falkner, was an English botanist and illustrator. Daughter of a rich Liverpool merchant, she married Edward Bury (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 (1785-1851) plates.

PropertyValue
dbpedia-owl:thumbnail
dbpprop:abstract
  • Priscilla Susan Bury, born Falkner, was an English botanist and illustrator. Daughter of a rich Liverpool merchant, she married Edward Bury (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 (1785-1851) plates. The book was carried out in aquatint 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 being one of them. Bury was also the author of illustrations for The Botanist of Benjamin Maund (1790-1863).
  • Priscilla Susan Bury, née Kalkner, est une botaniste et une illustratrice britannique, né vers 1790 à Liverpool et mort vers 1870 à Coydon. Fille d’un riche marchant de Liverpool, elle se marie avec Edward Bury, ingénieur des chemins de fer. Elle se lie avec William Roscoe (1753-1831), mécène et botaniste amateur. Bien qu’elle n’ait jamais reçu de botaniste ou qu’elle soit une illustratrice professionnelle, elle fait paraître de 1831 à 1834 A Selection of Hexandrian Plants dont les planches sont de sa main. Elle confie la gravure au londonien Robert Havell, graveur des planches d’Audubon (1785-1851). Le livre est réalisé en aquatinte et peint en parti à la main. Son tirage est de 350 exemplaires. Bury est aussi l’auteur d’illustrations pour The Botanist de Benjamin Maund (1790-1863).
  • Priscilla Susan Bury foi uma ilustradora botânica britânica.
dbpprop:hasPhotoCollection
dbpprop:reference
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Priscilla Susan Bury, born Falkner, was an English botanist and illustrator. Daughter of a rich Liverpool merchant, she married Edward Bury (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 (1785-1851) plates.
  • Priscilla Susan Bury, née Kalkner, est une botaniste et une illustratrice britannique, né vers 1790 à Liverpool et mort vers 1870 à Coydon. Fille d’un riche marchant de Liverpool, elle se marie avec Edward Bury, ingénieur des chemins de fer. Elle se lie avec William Roscoe (1753-1831), mécène et botaniste amateur.
  • Priscilla Susan Bury foi uma ilustradora botânica britânica.
rdfs:label
  • Priscilla Susan Bury
  • Priscilla Susan Bury
  • Priscilla Susan Bury
owl:sameAs
skos:subject
foaf:depiction
foaf:page
is owl:sameAs of