> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 770](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333909) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9943-1) LSID 9943-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2523019) QID Q2523019 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Spaendonck, Gerrit van (1746-1822), Dutch botanical artist who worked at the Muséum d'Histoire naturelle, Paris; teacher of P.J. Redouté. **Abbreviated name**: *Spaendonck* \[standard form in IPNI: *Spaend.*\] #### Original drawings at Paris in the collection des vélins du Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle, Bibliothèque Centrale; 70 water-colour drawings of the "Fleurs dessinées d'après nature" at BM. This set is not the original of the 1801 publication, but of a posthumous publication of circa 100 plates by A. Brienne, 1826/1829, cf. DU 316. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 425 (d. 11 Mai 1822); Blunt p. 303 \[index\]; BM 5: 1984, 8: 1227; DU 314-316; GR p. 77; JW 4: 458; Lasègue p. 267; NI 1879-1880, 1880n; PR 8809-8810, ed. 1: 9779; Rehder 1: 266, 267; TL-1/1252; TL-2/see P.J. Redouté. #### Biofile - Boven, M. van en Sam Segal, Gerard en Cornelis van Spaendonck. Twee Brabantsche bloemenschilders in Parijs. Maarssen (Gary Swartz) 1981, 222 p. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 73.1, 229.432. 1980. - Bultingaire, L., Arch. Mus. natl. Hist. nat. ser. 6. 3: 32-35. 1928. - Candolle, A.P. de, Mém. souvenirs 93. 1862. - Deleuze, M., Hist. descr. Mus. r. hist. nat. 173-174, 704-705. 1823. - Donnet, F., *in* Biogr. natl. Belg. 23: 287-290. 1921-1924. - Handler, K. et Li, Les plus belles fleurs, Paris, fol. 16 pl. - Hijmersma, H.J., Elseviers Magazine 13 Dec 1980, p. 117. - Lawalree, A. et al., Vélins du Muséum Bruxelles 1974, p. 8-10. - MacPhail, I. et al., Cat. redout. 3, 11-14, 27. 1963. - P-s, *in* J.Fr. Michaud, Biogr. univ. 40: 3. 1969 \[facs. ed.\]. - Rix, M., The art of the botanist 153, 155, 158. 1981. - Woodward, B.B., *in* Hist. coll. BM(NH) 1: 51. 1904 (set of 70 drawings). - Wright, R., Gardener's tribute 161, 162, 163. s.d. #### Eponymy *Spaendoncea* R.L. Desfontaines (1796). ### Publications ##### n.12.523. Fleurs dessinées d'après nature **Title** *Fleurs dessinées d'après nature*... Paris (chez l'auteur et Bance) \[1801\]. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. dess. après nat.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1801, in six parts of 4 plates each (stipple engravings, partly colour-printed, partly finished by hand (n.v.). BM(NH) has parts 1-4, *16 pi*; P (Bibl. natl.) and W have complete copies *24 pl.*). *German issue* see DU 316, "*Des fleurs d'après la nature par Spaendonck gemahlt* \[*sic*\], lithographs by G. Engelmann dated 1826-1829, ca. 100 pl (n.v.). See also *Souvenirs de van Spaendonck*, Paris 1826, 19 liths. by G. Engelmann, coloured by hand (DU 315, Sotheby 715). *Facsimile ed*.: 1957, *Flowers drawn from nature* reproduced from the 1800 folio *Fleurs dessinées d'après nature* edited by Wilfrid Blunt \[with introduction, q.v.\], Sharpthorne, Sussex (The Leslie Urquhart Press). *Copies*: FAS, MO, NY; IDC 5745. – 16 plates.