10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRADESCANT»
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#1 New York Times bestselling author and “queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) Philippa Gregory brings to life the passionate, turbulent times of seventeenth-century England as seen through the eyes of the country’s most famous royal ...
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Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum ...:
J. Tradescant, jun, Italy Parkinson Spain (Parkinson) Cont. of Eu. Oxford Gar.
Portugal Oxford Garden Portugal Oxford Garden S. of Eu. Oxford Garden Spain
John Tradescant Portugal John Tradescant Spain John Tradescant Portugal J.
John Claudius Loudon, 1838
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Garden Plots: The Politics and Poetics of Gardens
John Tradescant, the Elder, born in the 1570s, introduced a phenomenal range
of specimens to the gardens of Hatfield House, where he was head gardener to
Robert Cecil, the Earl of Salisbury. It was Salisbury who sent him to France and ...
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Curiosities and Texts: The Culture of Collecting in Early ...
tors included in the Musaeum Tradescantianum indicates that many of the people
who gave curiosities to Tradescant were linked to Buckingham. Tradescant found
himself unemployed when Buckingham was assassinated in the summer of ...
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Plant Lover's Companion: Plants, People and Places
Plants, People and Places Julia Brittain. John Tradescant the Elder (1570-1638)
and John Tradescant the Younger (1608-1662) John Tradescant was an
influential gardener and plantsman whose expertise and flair for networking
helped him ...
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Nature's Museums: Victorian Science and the Architecture of ...
The elder John Tradescant was a gardener who collected botanical specimens.
His museum included an impressive array of items: whale bones, a flying squirrel
, brightly coloured birds from India, an elk's hoof with three claws, the passion of ...
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Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum; or, The trees and ...
(Parkinson) Spain (Parkinson) N.Amer, J. Tradescant, jun. N. Amer. J. Tradescant
, jun. Italy Parkinson Spain (Parkinson) Cont. of Eu. Oxford Gar. Portugal Oxford
Garden Portugal Oxford Garden S. of Eu. Oxford Garden Spain John Tradescant
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John Claudius Loudon, 1838
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Science in the British Colonies of America
Tradescant (d. 1638), known as the Elder, together with John Tradescant the
Younger ( 1608-62 ), made up a father- an d-son team who did much to arouse
interest in natural history in England during the first half of the seventeenth
century.
Raymond Phineas Stearns, 1970
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Consuming Splendor: Society and Culture in ...
As we have seen, such china was increasingly imported, sold, and imitated in
seventeenth-century England.21 John Tradescant, who energetically sought the
most exotic flora and fauna for the Duke of Buckingham, first became a botanical
...
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The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of ...
When his house at South Lambeth, then called Tradescant's Ark, came into
Ashmole's possession, he added a noble room to it, and adorned the chimney
with his arms, impaling those of Sir William Dugdale, whose daughter was his 3d
wife, ...
Charles Hutton, George Shaw, Richard Pearson, 1809
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRADESCANT»
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“Someone Is Always Paying Somewhere”: UK Museums Face Entry …
Samuel Johnson's 1836 dictionary defined “museums” as “repositories of curiosities.” Britain's tradition of public museums began when John Tradescant ... «The Nonprofit Quarterly, Jul 15»
Dodo Birds: Extinct Bird Replicas Might Not Be Accurate, But There …
Once displayed as a public attraction in London, a dodo died, was mummified and given to a naturalist collector, John Tradescant Sr., according to Mental Floss. «Headlines & Global News, Jun 15»
Centuries of Collecting the Curious and Macabre through Digital …
John Tradescant founded Britain's first museum in the 17th century with a collection of mermaid hands, natural history specimens, and a purported piece of the ... «Hyperallergic, Feb 15»
William Blake: Wonderful and Strange
The latter was based on the collection gathered by the Tradescants, father and son, famed gardeners and plant collectors, who put it on show at their Lambeth ... «The New York Review of Books, Feb 15»
All For Nothing: Hamlet's Negativity, by Andrew Cutrofello
Another model, considerably different, is offered by John Tradescant, the traveller and botanist whose miscellany, assembled at the time of Shakespeare's later ... «Times Higher Education, Oct 14»
Curious choices
The inspiration for the discussion was London's Garden Museum, which is recreating part of John Tradescant's Ark, a 17th-century cabinet of curiosities that ... «Museums Association, Oct 14»
A heroic swim in honour of the Tradescants' lost Ark
There was so much in the house that the younger Tradescant asked the antiquary and alchemist Elias Ashmole to help him record it all, and signed a contract ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Sep 14»
Nick Curtis: Let's weed out the cars that choke London
... will swim from Oxford to London to raise funds towards the loan of some of the great London naturalist John Tradescant's treasures from the Ashmolean. «Evening Standard, Aug 14»
Bumblebees pollinate many plants, including native spiderwort
The first gardener to grow native spiderwort, Tradescantia virginiana, in cultivation was John Tradescant, gardener to Charles the First of England and a ... «Daily Press, Jul 14»
Tudor gardens bloom once more
Potatoes, tomatoes and gardener John Tradescant's new phenomenon, runner beans, were relished once it was established they were not poisonous. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 14»
