Priscilla Susan Bury

See also: Bury

Priscilla Susan Bury , born Kalkner , is a Botaniste and a British illustrator , born towards 1790 with Liverpool and died towards 1870 with Coydon.

Girl of a going rich person of Liverpool, it Marie with Edward Bury, engineer of the Railroads. She binds with William Roscoe (1753-1831), patron and botanist amateur. Although it never received from botanist or that it is a professional illustrator, it makes appear of 1831 with 1834 off has Selection Hexandrian Plants whose boards are with its hand. She entrusts engraving to the London Robert Havell, engraver of the boards of Audubon (1785-1851). The book is carried out in Aquatinte and is painted in party with the hand. Its pulling is of 350 specimens.

Bury is also the author of illustrations for The Botanist of Benjamin Maund (1790-1863).

Source

  • Brent Elliott (2001). Flora. An illustrated history of the flowers of garden. Delachaux and Niestlé (Lausanne): 335 p.

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