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In the elder Robins’s work, dating from around 1768, we can see some of the garden flowers that were fashionable in the mid-eighteenth century: double hyacinths, auriculas, passionflowers, and the Mexican bulbs Spreckelia formosissima and Polianthes tuberosa. An unusual flowerpiece, also in the Fitzwilliam Museum, is a painting on vellum, showing very exotic flowers—Cape heaths, Phaius tankervilleae, lobelia, fuchsia, and Pelargonium tricolor—together with roses and irises. The style is flamboyant, and the flowers are rare and painted with elegance and extreme accuracy.
The frontispiece shows Clifford’s banana plant that flowered in a hothouse in January 1736, and was the subject of a special study by Linnaeus, Musa Cliffortiana. ( ( f RIGHT, ABOVE: An engraved portrait of Carolus Linnaeus, who was born in Smårland in southern Sweden. 60 RIGHT, BELOW: The original title page of Linnaeus’ Species Plantarum, which set the rules for the naming of plants after its publication in 1753. opposite: Aesculus hippocastanum produced by Ehret as one of the illustrations for Hortus Cliffortianus.
Left: Gomphrena globosa (commonly known as Amaranth) from Volume I of the Commelins’ Horti medici amstelodamensis rariorum plantarum descriptio et icones. RIGHT: Scabiosa africana frutescens from Volume II of the same work. ( ( f opposite: Aloe africana, also from Volume II. 44 Dutch Flower Paintings W hile botanists and gardeners were commissioning paintings of individual flowers, a group of painters in the Netherlands was producing works showing fantastic vases packed with different flowers; it is said that the first was commissioned by a poor lady who could not afford to buy fresh flowers or exotic bulbs.