> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 146](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120277) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/552-1) LSID 552-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q938823) QID Q938823 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Bauer, Franz Andreas (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Bauer, Franz Andreas (1758-1840), Austrian botanical artist who lived and worked in England from 1788 until his death. "Botanick painter to His Majesty," "der grösste Pflanzenmahler" (PR), brother of Ferdinand Lukas Bauer. **Abbreviated name**: *F. A. Bauer* \[standard form in IPNI: *F.A.Bauer*\] #### Original drawings A large collection of original drawings in pencil and in watercolour (e.g. 127 of British Orchids) is preserved at BM (from the Banksian library). The collection includes plates published in works by W. Aiton, A. B. Lambert, W. J. Hooker and by F. A. Bauer himself, as well as many unpublished ones. Seven drawings of species of *Erica* made for the *Delineations of exotick plants* are at K, seventeen at BM. Bauer was employed by Banks at an annual salary. All drawings made by him during these years became the property of Banks (Dawson). The University Library of Göttingen holds the legacy of Franz Andreas Bauer, received from King Ernst August of Hannover in Nov 1841 and Jan 1842. This legacy contains probably half of the papers and drawings left by Bauer on his death. The collections at Göttingen consists of 20 volumes (and one volume of views from Greece by Ferdinand Lukas Bauer) of which volume 15 (60 coloured engravings of *Erica* species) is lost. The remaining volumes contain a great many drawings, water colours and manuscript annotations on a great variety of mostly botanical subjects. For further details see NI sub no. 99. *Ref*.: BB p. 25; BM 1: 112; Jackson p. 519 \[index\]; Kew 1: 180; MD p. 69; NDB 1: 634-635; NI sub. no. 99\[1\]; TL 10, 54-56, 572-573, 1144. - Anon., Kew Bull. 1934: 455-456. - Baker, Nature 167: 457-460. 1951 (on Bauer's water colours of the germination of wheat). - Blunt, The art of botanical illustration 195-202. 1951. - Stearn, Endeavour 19(73): 27-35. 1960. - Dawson, Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Hist. ser. 3: 74. 1965. - Göttingen, University Library, Cod. Ms. Med. & Hist. nat. 94 (20 vols.). - Daniels, Artists from the R. B. G. Kew 10-11. 1975 (portr.) #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 140; BB p. 25; BM 1: 112, 6: 65; Bossert p. 29; CSP 1: 212; Dawson p. 40; HU \[index vol. 2\]; HR; Jackson p. 519 \[index\]; Kew 1: 180; Langman p. 117, 426; MW p. 193; NI 66-99; PR 494-498; TL 54-56, 572-573; 1144; WU 1: 184. - Anon., Flora 24: 400. 7 Jul 1841. - Anon., Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 5: 47. 1840, 7: 77-78, 439-441. 1841. - Bishop of Norwich, Proc. Linn. Soc. 1: 101-104. 1841; summary in Abstr. Papers Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. 4: 342-344. 1843. - Thiselton Dyer, Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1891: 302-303. - Milner, Cat. portr. Kew 8. 1906. - Wittmack, *in* Beitr. landwirtsch. Pflanzenbau (Festschrift Schindler) 37-42. 1924. - Blunt, The art of botanical illustration 195-202. 1950. - Stearn, Endeavour 19(73): 27-35. 1960. #### Published illustrations (in addition to those in the works below): Home, *Lectures on comparative anatomy* (1814-1828); Hooker, *Genera filicum* (1842). #### Eponymy *Bauera* Banks ex H. C. Andrews (1801, also dedicated to his younger brother Ferdinand Lukas (1760-1826), q.v.) *Note*: For other eponymys based on the name Bauer see sub Ferdinand Lukas Bauer. ### Publications ##### n.363. Delineations of exotick plants cultivated in the royal garden at Kew **Title** *Delineations of exotick plants cultivated in the royal garden at Kew*. Drawn and coloured, and the botanical characters displayed according to the Linnean system, by Francis Bauer, botanick painter to His Majesty. Published by W. T. Aiton, His Majesty's gardener at Kew. London 1796-\[1803\]. Broadsheet. **Abbreviated title**: *Delin. exot. pl. Kew*. **Notes** *Publ*.: p. \[i\*\], \[iii\*\], \[i\]-iii, *pl*. \[*1-30*\]. *Copy*: HU. – Issued in three fascicles of ten plates each, no. 1 (90 copies of which 10 were spoilt) Apr 1796; no. 2 (eighty copies) Jan 1797; no. 3 (fifty copies) Jan-Apr 1803. The plates have engraved "dates of publication": plates *1-20, 22* and *30*: 1 Jan 1793; plates *21, 23, 25-28*: 1 Jan 1800; plates *24* and *29*: 1 Jan 1801. These dates have been shown not to have been the real dates of publication (cf. Britten 1899). – The thirty plates, all of Ericaceae (n.b. PR 498 is identical with 494), are hand-coloured engravings of drawings by F. A. Bauer. The plants depicted had nearly all been imported by Francis Masson. See HU 747 for a bibliographic analysis and description. *Ref*.: BH; BM 1: 112; DU 28; GF p. 49; HU 747; Jackson p. 412; Kew 1: 29 (sub Aiton); NI 97; PR 494, 498; IDC 6129. - Anon., GGA 1796: 717. 5 Mai 1796 \[fasc. 1\] (rev.) - Anon., Nieuwe alg. Konst-Letterb. 5: 183. 3 Jun 1796 \[fasc. 1\] (rev.) - Konig and Sims, Ann. Bot. 1: 16. 1805. - Britten, J. Bot. 37: 181-183. 1899, 39: 107-108. 1901. - Sotheby, Cat. Stiftung Botanik 1: 30-31. 1975 (sold at *£* 1, 900). ##### n.364. Strelitzia depicta **Title** *Strelitzia depicta* or coloured figures of the known species of the genus Strelitzia from the drawings in the Banksian library. London 1818. Fol. † (n.v.) **Abbreviated title**: *Strelitzia*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 818 – 11 coloured lithographs after drawings by F. A. Bauer; lithographed title. Originally planned to contain 16 plates. Probably issued in parts. *Ref*.: BM 1: 112; GF p. 49; Henrey 439; Jackson p. 145; Kew 1: 180; NI 99; PR 495. ##### n.365. Illustrations of orchidaceous plants **Title** *Illustrations of orchidaceous plants*; by Francis Bauer... with notes and prefatory remarks by John Lindley... London (James Ridgway & Sons) 1830-1838. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Ill. orch. pl.* **Notes** *Co-author*: John Lindley (1799-1865). *Publ*.: G. Buchheim kindly communicated to us the contents and dates of the four parts in which the book was published as established by him for Bibliographia Huntiana from copies in Berlin and Marburg; these agree with the copy at L and MO. |part |*plates* |text (special matter) |dates| |--- |--- |--- |--- | |1 |Fruct. 1-3, 6, 8-10; Genera 1-3 |prospectus \[3 p.\] |Nov-Dec 1830| |2 |Fruct. 5, 12-15; Genera 4, 6-9 |corrections to pl. 2-3 |1832| |3 |Fruct. 4, 7, 11; Genera 5, 10-15 | |1834| |4 |Genera 16-20 |\[i\*-iv\*, t.p., preface\], \[i\]-xiv |28 Oct-31 Dec 1838| The years are given on the wrappers; the prospectus (part 1) is dated Nov 1830, the prefatory remarks (part 4) 24 Oct 1838. Plates 16-20 are dated 1 Dec 1837; the years in which Bauer made the drawings are given on each plate. – The Berlin copy contains a reprint of part 1, dated 1838. This date appears only on the original wrapper. The title on the wrappers is "The genera and species of orchidaceous plants by John Lindley ... illustrated by..." a title confusingly close to that of the entirely different octavo publication by Lindley, 1830-1840, entitled "The genera and species of orchidaceous plants." – The 35 plates are handcoloured or uncoloured lithographs; 28 plates are by F. A. Bauer, 7 other plates are of drawings by Lindley after sketches made by Bauer (Fruct. 1, 3, 6, 9, Gen. 1-3). A facsimile reprint was announced, but not \[yet\] published, by Asher 1974. *Ref*.: BM 1: 112; GF p. 49; HR; Jackson 138; Kew 1: 180; NI 98; PR 496.