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Virgin Trains DVT 82222 is seen passing Botany Bay near Retford with a passenger service.
1A25 11:15 Leeds - London Kings Cross.
Single unit MZ 1437 is about to exit Botany Yard as it heads west en route to M.I.S.T. at Minto.
053459 15 July 2012
Symbolae botanicae, sive plantarum,.
Hauniae,imprensis auctoris, excudebant N. Möller et filius,1790-94..
Botany Bay (copy of engraving of 1825)
1825-1840
Edward Rudge junior (1789-1841)
Watercolour
VA.1976.154.11
This watercolour shows Botany Bay in Australia. A rowing boat is riding the large waves and seems to be trying to reach the shore. Steep cliffs rise sharply from the shoreline which is covered in tropical vegetation It is a copy of an engraving of 1825.
Edward Rudge was born in the Coventry area in about 1789. Practically nothing is known of Edward Rudge before the date of his marriage to Elizabeth Bradford at Coventry on 24 February 1810, when he is described as an artist of Snitterfield, Warwickshire. They had eight children and lived in Coventry from 1813 to 1828. Rudge stated in 1828 that he ‘‘has been engaged in teaching in the last twenty years’’. He was established as assistant master to Dr Wooll at Rugby School in 1824. Rudge’s career began as the taste for topographical watercolours was beginning to change to that for incipient romanticism. Edward had drawn many sketchbooks during his life, at least nine of which still exist intact. He painted many landscape views of places where he lived or visited. Edward’s son Bradford Rudge, born in 1813, inherited his father’s talent, and their styles appear to be very similar. He took over some of his father’s sketch books and developed some of the mannerisms of his style. Rudge died at Dunchurch in 1841 and was buried there.