John Tradescant, Royal gardeners. Lambeth Ark/Ashmolean museum contributors 1827

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Portraits of the Tradescants. Artist/engraver/cartographer: Thomas Allen. Provenance: "The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Lambeth, and the Archiepiscopal Palace in the County of Surrey", by Thomas Allen, published for J. Allen, 23 Prince's Road, Kennington. Type: Antique engraved print. John Tradescant the elder () and his son John the younger (1608-1662) were Royal gardeners. In 1629 they came to live at Lambeth, close to where the Garden Museum now stands, and planted a botanical garden. They displayed his collection of natural history, art and ethnography; known as the ‘Ark’, this was the first Museum in Britain to be open to the public. The Tradescants gifted their collection to Elias Ashmole, also shown, which forms part of the collection of the Ashmolean museum in Oxford, considered the world's first modern museum

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Size: 4612px × 2959px
Location: London
Photo credit: © Antiqua Print Gallery / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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