Collection of fruit bearing plants executed by one or more Chinese artists for Dr. Thomas Ward (d. 1833)

Collection of fruit bearing plants executed by one or more Chinese artists for Dr. Thomas Ward (d. 1833)

Author: Chinese School

Year: 1820

Chinese School Collection of fruit bearing plants executed by one or more Chinese artists for Dr. Thomas Ward (d. 1833) Island of Penang, circa 1820-1828 36 pencil, water- and bodycolor drawings, some heightened with white, 15 ⅛ x 19 ¼ inches, approximately, all mounted. The plants are identified in manuscript.Remnants show that the work was bound at one point. In two half vellum and decorative boards box-cases. Spine heights: 25 ¾ inches. Watermarks: J. Whatman 1820, 1823, 1825, and 1828. Dr. Thomas Ward, MD, Edinburgh, 1822, became assistant surgeon on February 4, 1823. He coauthored with J. P. Grant, Statistics and Topography of Malacca and Prince of Wales Island in 1830. He was also a surgeon in the East India Company and a medical officer on the Island of Penang. Dr. Ward died in Tellicherry on June 23, 1833. Drawings inscribed as follows: 1. “Poolasan. Nephelii lappacei ban,” and on verso: “20.” 2. “Buah Larum,” and on verso: “18.” 3. “Dammer. Agathis loranthiflia? Sprengel/ Pinus Dammara – Lambert./ Dammara Alba – Rumphius./ ‘Arbor altissima foliis alternis oppositisque, subpetiolatis’/ oblongis, utrinque ‘attsimatis, nervosis, subtus reflexis’/ ‘loenibus glanicefentilius/ A