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John ParkinsonRosa (Roses)1629
1629
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JOHN PARKINSON (1567-1650).
Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris.
Published by Thrale.
London, 1629.
Woodcuts by Christopher Switzer.
Later hand color.
110 woodcuts.
"...a Garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English are will permit to be noursed up...".
Parkinson's work is among the most famous English gardening books of the seventeenth century. Perhaps based on his own garden, it was practical from the point of view of the gardener and described nearly 1,000 plants, mostly exotics. Though it makes little appeal to the scientific botanist, it does give a very complete picture of the English garden at the beginning of the seventeenth century, and in such a delightful, homely, literary style that gardeners cherish it even to the present day.
The title Paradisi in Sole is a pun on the author's name: "park in sun".
Reference: Magnificent Botanical Books. Sotheby’s. London, 1987.
The Illustration of Plants & Gardens 1500-1850. Kaden. London, 1982
- Creator:John Parkinson (1597 - 1650, English)
- Creation Year:1629
- Dimensions:Height: 23 in (58.42 cm)Width: 18 in (45.72 cm)
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- Condition:Clean, crisp image. Beautiful hand-coloring. Framed to museum specifications using archival matting, backing, hinging. Glazed with ultra-violet filtering Plexiglas.
- Gallery Location:Florham Park, NJ
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John Parkinson
John Parkinson was the last of the great English herbalists and one of the first of the great English botanists. He was apothecary to James I and a founding member of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries in December 1617 and was later Royal Botanist to Charles I. He is known for two monumental works, Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris (Park-in-Sun's Terrestrial Paradise, 1629), which generally describes the proper cultivation of plants; and Theatrum Botanicum (The Botanical Theatre or Theatre of Plants, 1640), the most complete and beautifully-presented English treatise on plants of its time. One of the most eminent gardeners of his day, he kept a botanical garden at Long ACRE in Covent Garden, today close to Trafalgar Square, and maintained close relations with other important English and continental botanists, herbalists and plantsmen.
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