'Lychnidea Caroliniana floribus...' mb-artist Sayle A poem in Punch

A poem in Punch

Also showing traffic on the bridge and boats on the River Thames

St Mary Overie's Church

View of people attending Peckham Fair

Janus in Roman mythology was the god of passageways and doorways

'Lychnidea Caroliniana floribus...' mb-artist Sayle A poem in PunchBotanical study of Phlox carolina, described by John Martyn in the Historia Plantarum Rariorum (1728 ) and reproduced there as plate 9, (sponsored by Johann Caspar Scheutzer). From a specimen grown at Chelsea Physic Garden, probably from originals gathered by Mark Catesby. Inscribed in ink 'Lychnidea Caroliniana foribus quasi umbellatim dispositis folio lucidis crassis acutus, Martyn. H. R. P. D.' Not signed. Watermarked 'LVG.' Original: watercolour