| Priscilla Susan Bury Gallery |
| A Selection of Hexandrian Plants | |||
| Priscilla Susan Bury's A Selection of Hexandrian Plants was a collaborative effort, incorporating the work of the inspired craftsman and engraver Robert Havell, Jr. It was published in London in 1831 and 1834 at the time Havell and his colorists were compiling Audubon's The Birds of America. The same high standard was maintained in both works. Incidentally, John James Audubon was one of the 79 subscribers to Mrs. Bury's collection. Since the plants depicted belonged to Mrs. Bury or to her friends, the images portray a positive, personal element rarely felt in works of this kind. Each striking plate is life-size. Mrs. Bury writes this was 'an endeavor to preserve some memorial of the brilliant and fugitive beauties, of a particularly splendid and elegant tribe of plants.' | |||
| Publication City: London Dimensions: life-sized images Date: 1831 and 1834 | |||
| SELECTIONS FROM THIS WORK | |||
 Amaryllis Belladonna (plate 45) details |  Amaryllis Formosissima (plate 6) details |  Amaryllis Longifolia (plate 42) details |  Amaryllis Miniata (plate 35) details |  Amaryllis Picta (plate 5) details |  Barbados Lily (Plate 44) details |  Crinum Cruentum (plate 22) details |  Crinum Hybridum Pedunculatum & Zeylanicum (plate 30) details |  Crinum Yuccaeides (plate 21) details |  Crinum Zeylanicum (plate 29) details |  Hemerocallis Carulea/Japonica, Libellula Anquis Harris (plate 50) details |  Lilium Longiflorum (plate 8) details |  Lilium Tigrinum (1237) details |  Nerine Aurea (plate 3) details |  Pancratium Amboinense (plate 20) details |  Queen Lily (Plate 24) details |  Superior Variegated Amaryllis (Plate 31) details |  Zephyranthes Tubisptha/Candida (plate 25) details | | |
