William Bartram 1739-1823

Watercolours and Drawings

Plate 16

Pavonia

$750.00

No.16
Pavonia : Pavonia spinifex
380 x 242

Bartram called this flower Hibiscus spinifex and sites it in several different places on
his travels. When on Drayton’s Island he describes the “orange flowered shrub
Hibiscus” as “conspicuously beautiful”
P.104 Travels

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