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Last Name Edwards

Given Name Sydenham Teak / Teast

alt. Names S. T. E. ; Sydenham Teak / Teaste Edwards ;

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Year born 1768 in Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales

Year died 1819

Place of death Chelsea / Brompton, London

Father's occupation bookbinder, schoolmaster, and organist Lloyd Pittell Edwards (1740 c. -1835 c.), Abergavenny in Wales

Relatives Mary Reese (mother) ; Rev. William Reece, the curate of Llantilio Crossenny (maternal grandfather) ; Ann Mackafee (maternal grandmother) ; ...

Education taught by botanist William Curtis (1746-1799) ;

Country of Activity Wales, UK

Worked for William Curtis: Botanical Magazine (1787-1815) ; W. Curtis: Lectures bot. (1782/1805) & Flora Londinensis (1777-1798) ; R. W. Dickson (= Alex. McDonald): Dict. Gardening (1805-7) ; Robert Willan: Cutaneous Diseases (1798-1808) ; Ashby Smith (ed.): Pract. treat. Porrigo (1814) ; George Graves: Brit. Ornith. (1811-21) ; von Rees: Cyclop. (1805) ; W. J. Hooker: Musci exot (1818) ; S. T. Edwards: Cynographica Britannica (1800) & New Flora Britannica (1812) ; J. B. Audebert & L. J. P. Vieillot: Oiseaux dorés (1802) ; G. Shaw: General Zoology (1800-1826) & Vivarium naturae (1790-1813) ; The new botanic garden, illustrated with one hundred and thirty-three plants, engraved by Sansom, from the original pictures, & coloured w. the greatest exactness from drawings by S. E. ; Cynographia britannica, 1800 ; Ornamental flower-garden and shrubbery ; Abraham Rees (1743-1825): The Cyclopedia (1802-1820: 1 botanical drawing, engraved by Milton (fl. early 1800s)) ;

Patronage Samuel Curtis's Botanical Magazine (1787-1815) ; Botanical Register ; New Botanic Garden (1805-7) ; Linnean Society ;

Collaborators engraver -> William Kilburn ; -> James Sowerby ; -> J. Bellenden Ker ; -> Joseph Perry ; -> Selliers ; -> G. Graves ; W. S. Howitt ; -> F. Sansom ; -> J. Farey Jr. ; -> Wilson Lowry ; draughtswomen -> S. A. Drake & -> A. Withers ; after S. E.'s death, draughtsman -> M. Hart took over the main charge of illustrations in the Botanical Register;

Techniques botanical and ornithological drawing, painting, copperplate engraving, and watercolour

Sample(s) http://www.library.utoronto.ca/anatomical/RBAI067/0012-0-0.jpg ; http://plantillustrations.org/artist.php?id_artist=374&mobile=0

Archival sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydenham_Edwards ; https://www.botanicalartandartists.com/famous-botanical-artists.html ; ...

Published sources AKL 32 2002: 224 ; ThB 10 1914: 352 ; DNB ; Bénézit Dictionary of Artists: English Edition 5 (2006) 78 ; Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966, Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ; Walpole 1969: 6f. ; Sawyer 1971: 124 ; Fisher, Watercolour Painters, 1972 ; Cleevely 1974: 486 & 546 ; Ehring: Hautkrankheiten 1989: 69, 73 & 76 ; Orchids 1991: 9-10 et passim, plates ; Sprunger 1986: 10 ; Becker 2015: 180-182 ;

other S. E. was active in London, England. In 1815 he founded the Botanical Register which appeared until 1847. See also: http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/search.aspx?advanced=colProProductionMakers%3a%22Edwards%2c+Sydenham%22+colCollectionGroup%3aCH.

https://www.orchidstudygroup.org.uk/sydenham-t-edwards/

See also: http://fmhibd.library.cmu.edu/HIBD-DB/ArtCat/recordlist.php?-skip=2500&-max=25 . Further Relative: physician Richard Reece (uncle).

Further archival source: https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/edwards-sydenham.html .

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