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   Day
   John
   J. D. ;
   
   
   1824 in London
   1888
   
   wealthy wine merchant.
   Emma Wolstenholme, his sister
   
   England, UK
   Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, orchid taxonomist at the Univ. of Hamburg ;
   Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ;
   German botanist Prof. H. G. Reichenbach, whose published plant descriptions often accompany Day’s own plant portraits ; draughtsman ->Cornelius Durham ; draughtsman ->William Hull ;draughtswoman ->Mary Ripley ;
   botanical watercolour painting and painting ;
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:John_Day00.jpg and ...02.jpg ;
   scrabbooks at Kew gardens, see www.kew.org/exhibitions/johnday/learn/johnday.html ; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Day_botanist ;
   Phillip Cribb: A Very Victorian Passion. The Orchid Paintings of J. D. 1863-88 (London 2004) ;
   Victorian plant enthusiast, horticulturalist, draughtsman, and water aquarelist.
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