> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 810](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190281) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8442-1) LSID 8442-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3340748) QID Q3340748 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Robert, Nicolas (1610-1684), French botanical artist for Gaston d'Orléans at Paris. **Abbreviated name**: *N. Robert* \[standard form in IPNI: *N.Robert*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Note See NI 1643-1649 for Robert's flower books. A facsimile edition of the 1660 \[?\] issue of *Variae ac multiformes florum species* was published by Scolar Press, London 1975. – See Laissus (1980) for a major work on Robert's originals. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 162; Blunt p. 302 \[index\]; BM 4: 1712; Dryander 3: 66; DU 264; Frank 3 (Anh.): 84; GF p. 73; Herder p. 84; HU 2(1): cxci-cxcii, cxcviii; Jackson p. 29, no; Lasègue p. 314; NI 1643-1649 (b. 18 Apr 1611, d. 25 Mar 1685) and see indexes; PR 7661, ed. 1: 2648, 8630-8632; Rehder 5: 729; TL-1/577; TL-/876, 3303; Tucker 1: 600. #### Biofile - Anon., Bull. misc. Inf. Kew 1896: 32 (Kew acquired a set of R.'s engravings). - Blunt, W., The compleat naturalist 18, 116. 1971. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 431 \[index\]. 1980. - Brindle, J.V., Bull. Hunt Inst. bot. Docum. 2(1): 3-4. 1980. - Fries, Th.M., Bref skrifv. Linné 1(6): 316. 1912. - Laissus, Y., ed., Nicolas Robert et les vélins du Roy, Paris 1980 (introd. by Yves Laissus; 35 reproductions of Robert originals). - Lawalrée, A. et al., Vélins du Muséum, Bruxelles 1974, p. 3. - Rose, H.J., New gen. biogr. dict. 11: 357. 1850. - Stearn, W.T., Roy. Hort. Soc, Exhib. manuscr. books 1954, p. 23, 24. #### Eponymy *Robertia* Scopoli (1777); *Robertia* A. Richard ex A.P. de Candolle (1815) [^1]. *Note*: *Robertia* R. Choubert (1932) honors M. Robert, Belgian geologist; *Robertomyces* Starbäck (1905) honors both Klas Robert Elias Fries, *q.v.* and Oscar Robert Fries (1840-1908), Swedish mycologist. [^1]: "*Robertia* A.Rich. ex DC. 1815 (Asteraceae) Very likely \[is dedicated to\] Gaspard Nicolas Robert (1776–1857), French botanist, pharmacist, who about 1802 worked for a short time at the new established botanic garden in Ajaccio/Corsica. On the island he collected many plants. Then he was director of the botanic garden Toulon in the south of France. (Translated dedication: Monsieur Robert, to whom is owed the knowledge of many plants from Corsica.) (Candolle, 1815: 453)." Burkhardt, L. (2016). About some eponyms in Taxonomic literature (TL-2). _Taxon_, _65_(1), 137–145. [https://doi.org/10.12705/651.9](https://doi.org/10.12705/651.9)