Rungia / Raju (possibly his familiy name) / Rungiah ;
1795 c.
1845 c.
India
family of painters in the Kshatriya caste of Tanjore in the Telegu-speaking area of Andrha Pradesh
trained by William Griffith in dissection and in the use of the microscope
India
Scottish surgeon and botanist Robert Wight (1796-1872) from 1826 to 1845: >1000 illustrations in Icones Plantarum Indiae Orientalis, >100 in Illustration of Indian Botany ;
British East India Company (employer of Wight as economic botanist) ; Royal Botanical Garden, Edinburgh
successor by ->Govindoo, who was trained by R. ; engraver Joseph Swan for Botanical Miscellany (1832) ; lithographer J. Dumphy for Wight: Icones (Madras 1839) ;
botanical pencils & ink drawing and watercolour ; hand-colouring
herbarium specimens & illustrations kept at Royal Botanical Garden Edinburgh (where Robert Wight had studied)
Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966 ; M. Archer: Natural History Drawings in the India Office Library (London 1962: 56) ; Henry J. Noltie: Indian Botanical Drawings 1793-1868 (Edinburgh 1999: 52-9) ; The Hooker Lecture, Linnean Society, Special Issue 6 (2006) ; Henry J. Noltie: Robert Wight and the Botanical Drawings of R. and Govindoo (2007) ;
R. was a Telegu speaker and travelled with Robert Wight through Tamil Nadu, Keral & Andhra Pradesh.
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