Alkekengi Barbadense... mb-code 1620723 Dimion O'Neill

Dimion O'Neill

The east end of the Guildhall

the wife of novelist Charles Dickens

With ruins of buildings in the background

The plate is inscribed lower right: 'And

Alkekengi Barbadense... mb-code 1620723 Dimion O'NeillBotanical study of a specimen of physalis, inscribed: 'Alkekengi Barbadense, patulum, parvo flore, fructu amplo, mucrone productioni Act. Phil n. 399.' A specimen of this plant was noted in 'A catalogue of the fifty plants sent from Chelsea Garden, presented to the Royal Society 1726', by Isaac Rand, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society vol. 35 (1729), p. 293. Not signed. Original: watercolour on paper. ca. 1730