What is Henry Charles Andrews?
[[Image:Coloured engravings of heaths (Plate 026) - Erica grandiflora.jpg|thumb|''[[Erica grandiflora]]'' L.f. 1802]] '''Henry Cranke Andrews''' ([[floruit|fl.]] 1794 - 1830), was an English [[botanist]], and an [[artist]] who [[Illustration|illustrated]] plants. As he always published as '''Henry C. Andrews''', and due to difficulty finding records, the C. was referred to as Charles, from 1961 until a record of his marriage registration was found in 2017.<ref name=CrankeFree>{{citation |url=http://shnh.org.uk/assets/uploads/112-SHNH_Issue112_0617_web.pdf |title=H. C. Andrews Mystery Solved |first=E. Charles |last=Nelson |work=Society for the History of Natural History |date=July 2017 |volume=112 |page=18–19 |quote=the ‘C.’ is now known to stand for Cranke and not Charles |access-date=2020-08-08}}</ref> == Early life and career == He lived in [[Knightsbridge]]. He was married to the daughter of [[Lee and Kennedy|John Kennedy]] of [[Hammersmith]], a [[Nursery (horticulture)|nurseryman]] who helped Andrews to write descriptions of the plants he illustrated. Andrews was a good and unusual botanical artist. He was not only an artist, but also [[Engraving|engraver]], [[Colouring|colorist]], and [[publisher]] in a time when most artists were only employed to make small drawings. The ''Botanist's Repository'' was his first publication. It was issued in London in a series of ten volumes between 1797 and 1812. It provided affordable images of plants to the growing population of amateur gardeners in Britain. == Works == The [[Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|Kew]] publication, ''[[Curtis's Botanical Magazine]]'', wrote that Andrews' work was very accurate. Andrews' images have a more artistic appeal compared to the publications of his rival, which were focused more on scientific descriptions. ==Publications== *''Botanists Repository, Comprising Colour'd Engravings of New and Rare Plants'' (10 vols.) (London, 1797–1812) *''[http://www.botanicus.org/title/b11943129 Coloured Engravings of Heaths]'' 1794-1830 4 vols. *''The Heat