Drawings from the V&A's Collection

Drawing to Illustrate Lectures on Botany, Given at the Government School of Design

Drawing to Illustrate Lectures on Botany, Given at the Government School of Design, Christopher Dresser, about 1855. Museum no. 3968

Drawing to Illustrate Lectures on Botany, Given at the Government School of Design

Drawing to Illustrate Lectures on Botany, Given at the Government School of Design
Christopher Dresser (1834-1904)
Britain
About 1855
Pencil and water-colour
Width 75.5 cm x height 55 cm
Museum no. 3968

Christopher Dresser, designer and writer on design, began his career teaching botany. This is one of a series of drawings of elements of flowers that he drew in a diagrammatic form to help him explain principles of biology.