IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS1015
Held at: Senate House Library, University of London
Title: Bauer, Franz (1758-1840)
Date(s): c1788-c1829
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 15 items
Name of creator(s): Bauer | Franz Andreas | 1758-1840 | microscopist and botanical artist
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Franz Bauer was born in Feldsberg, Austria in 1758; his first published botanical drawing appeared in 1771; moved to England in 1790 to take up a position of draughtsman at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew; amongst his publications was Strelitzia Depicta (1818). Bauer is considered to be one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of botanical artists.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Sketch of the eclipse of the sun, 1820; handwritten "explanation of plate"; sketches including grain worms, root worms, dust brands of wheat; title jacket for "Prospectus Operis Botanici" by Joseph Plenck (1788); short note describing Bauer's sketch of 2 December 1829.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English, German, Latin
System of arrangement:
1 file only
Conditions governing access:
Open for research.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Access to the items in the collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the controlled environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room Access to archive collections may be restricted under the Freedom of Information Act. Please contact the University Archivist for details.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Collection-level description
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Transferred from Senate House Library
Immediate source of acquisition:
Senate House Library
ALLIED MATERIALS
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Related material:
The Natural History Museum holds botanical notes and drawings, c1803-1840; the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew holds memoranda and papers relevant to diseases in corn, c1805; Department of Plant Sciences, Oxford University holds drawings of Greek flora c1786; University College London holds letters to von Jacquin; the University of Göttingen holds drawings and manuscripts.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Richard Temple.
Date(s) of descriptions: 2006-11-08, Richard Temple