Plate 11. A PINERY. Executed for The Right Honorable SIR JOSEPH BANKS, Bart. Smallbury Green. Middx
Information
Title
Plate 11. A PINERY. Executed for The Right Honorable SIR JOSEPH BANKS, Bart. Smallbury Green. Middx
Record type
Digitised Book Plate Collection
Original Reference
BP/5930-1001/11
Author or creator
Josiah Taylor (London, England); bookseller, publisher
Date
01 Sep 1806
Scope & content
Coloured engraved plate depicting designs for a 'pinery'. Includes a transverse section, elevation and plan with a scale bar to the bottom. Described in the book 'A Pinery build for Sir JOSEPH BANKS, Bart. At Spring Grove, Smallbury Green, Middlesex'. Spring Grove House [Isleworth] was the home of the botanist Sir Joseph Banks. Banks sailed the world with Captain Cook and was an eminent naturalist, becoming the first unofficial director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in 1773 and President of the Royal Society in 1778. He was also instrumental in the founding of the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) on 7th March 1804. The pinery was designed by W. T. Aiton, Esq. The book plate bears the imprints 'Transverse Section of Pinery & Fruit Room', 'Elevation', 'Plan' and 'London, Published Septr. 1st. 1806, by J. Taylor, 59, High Holborn'. From the book 'Plans, elevations and sections, of hot-houses' by George Tod