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Alexander Marshal (1620-7? - 1682)

English entomologist, collector, gardener, and botanical artist. Marshal produced a florilegium for the younger Tradescant. Marshall, “the first skilled botanical artist that we know of in Britain,” was brought up in France and lived for a time in South Lambeth with John Tradescant the Younger (Willes, 183). In August 1682, John Evelyn visited Henry Compton, Bishop of London, at Fulham, where he was shown Marshall's natural history collection and was most impressed by his collection of insects." Marshall was living with Compton at the time (Willes, 183, citing Evelyn's Diary, iv, p. 289, 1 August 1682. Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Marshal Artist - illustrator
Collector (minor)
 Relevant locations: Lived at or near South Lambeth Road, Lambeth
 Relationships: Alexander Marshal was a friend of Henry Compton (1631/2-1713)
Alexander Marshal was a great-uncle of John Tradescant, the Younger (4 Aug 1608 [bap.]-22 Apr 1662)
Alexander Marshal was a source of object(s) for John Tradescant, the Younger (4 Aug 1608 [bap.]-22 Apr 1662)

 Linked print sources: as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - The Florilegium of Alexander Marshal at Windsor Castle.
as Mentions or references - Geschichte der Deutschen in England von den ersten germanischen ansiedlungen in Britannien bis zum ende des 18. jahrhunderts..
as Mentions or references - The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn.
as - The curiosities of common water, or The advantages thereof, in preventing and curing many distempers ....
 References in Documents:
[Travel Diary of Georg Christoph Stirn of Nuremberg, includes description of the Tradescant collection, as well as those in the tower and at Oxford] [*]Mus. Trad. p. 41: 'A Booke of Mr. Tradescant's choicest Flowers and Plants, exquisitely limned in vellum, by Mr. Alex. Marshall.'
Musaeum Tradescantianum (1656) A Booke of Mr. TRADESCANT'S choicest Flowers and Plants, exquisitely limned in vellum, by Mr. Alex: Marshall.