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William Turner describes the gooseberry in his Herball, written about the middle of the 16th century, and a few years later it is mentioned in one of Thomas Tusser's quaint rhymes as an ordinary object of garden culture.
Green gooseberries Red berries of Ribes uva-crispa. Gooseberry (/ ˈ ɡ uː s b ɛ r i / GOOSS-berr-ee or / ˈ ɡ uː z b ɛ r i / GOOZ-berr-ee (American and northern British) or / ˈ ɡ ʊ z b ər i / GUUZ-bər-ee (southern British)) [1] is a common name for many species of Ribes (which also includes currants), as well as a large number of plants of similar appearance, and also several ...
Turner's father William Turner (1745–1829) moved to London around 1770 from South Molton, Devon. [5] Joseph Mallord William Turner was born on 23 April 1775 and baptised on 14 May. [b] He was born in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, in London, England. [6] His father was a barber and wig maker. [8]
William Turner (1509/10 – 13 July 1568) [1] was an English divine and reformer, a physician and a natural historian. He has been called “the father of English botany ”. [ 2 ] He studied medicine in Italy, and was a friend of the great Swiss naturalist, Conrad Gessner .
The Painting is attributed to Turner. It is highly likely to be a Turner work, and part of the Turner Bequest also. [3] Interior of a Romanesque Church: c.1795–1800 Tate Britain, London: 61 x 50.2 Fishermen at Sea: 1796 Tate Britain, London: 91.4 × 122.2 Diana and Callisto (after Wilson) 1796 Tate Britain, London: 56.5 x 91.4 Interior of a ...
William Turner (naturalist) (c. 1508–1568), English ornithologist and botanist; dean of Wells Cathedral; William Turner Thiselton-Dyer (1843–1928), British botanist; W. E. S. Turner (William Ernest Stephen Turner, 1881–1963), English chemist and glass technologist; William Wadden Turner (1810–1859), British-born American linguist and ...
Ribes lobbii is a deciduous, loosely branched shrub, about 0.5–1.5 metres (1 + 1 ⁄ 2 –5 feet) in height. [2] Its stems are spreading, finely hairy, generally having three slender nodal spines, 7–12 millimetres (1 ⁄ 4 – 1 ⁄ 2 inch) long.
The Author was in this Storm on the Night the "Ariel" left Harwich) [1] is a painting by English artist Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851) from 1842. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Though panned by many contemporary critics, critic John Ruskin commented in 1843 that it was "one of the very grandest statements of sea-motion, mist and light, that has ever ...