family in theTelegu-speaking area of Andrha Pradesh
trained by Indian artist -> Rungiah in dissection and in the use of the microscope
India
Scottish surgeon and botanist Robert Wight (1796-1872) from 1845-53, esp. >1000 plates in vols. 4-6 of Icones Plantarum Indiae Orientalis & >60 plates in Illustrations of Indian Botany ; Richard Henry Beddome (1874) ; Sir George King ; H. F. C. Cleghorn: Hortus Madraspatensis (1853) ;
British East India Company (employer of Wight as economic botanist); Royal Botanical Garden, Edinburgh
successor of -> Rungiah, who had trained him ; -> William de Alwis and ->George Alwis on Sir George King's monographs of Indian Myristicaceae (1890) & Annonaceae (1893) ;
botanical pencil & ink drawing, and watercolour ; hand-colouring
herbarium specimens & illustrations kept at Royal Botanical Garden Edinburgh (where Robert Wight had studied)
Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966 ; Archer 1962 ; Noltie, H. J. : Indian Botanical Drawings 1793-1868 (Edinburgh 1999: 28f., 76f. & 84-88) and Robert Wight and the Botanical Drawings of Rungiah and G. (2007) ; The Hooker Lecture, in: Linnean Society, Special Issue 6 (2006) ; M. Sanjappa, C. Sathish Kumar & S. D. Biju: Orchid icones of Central National Herbarium, Botanical Survey of India ;
G., who worked mostly in Madras c.1840-90, was a Telegu speaker & travelled with Robert Wight through Tamil Nadu, Keral, and Andhra Pradesh.
See also: https://www.botanicalartandartists.com/famous-asian-botanical-artists-600-1900.html .
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