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Scotch fir or Scots pine, Pinus sylvestris. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Woodville and Sir William Jackson Hooker's "Medical Botany," John Bohn, London, 1832. The tireless Sowerby (1757-1822) drew over 2, 500 plants for Smith's mammoth "English Botany" (1790-1814) and 440 mushrooms for "Coloured Figures of English Fungi " (1797) among many other works.
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Caption:
Scotch fir or Scots pine, Pinus sylvestris. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Woodville and Sir William Jackson Hooker's "Medical Botany," John Bohn, London, 1832. The tireless Sowerby (1757-1822) drew over 2, 500 plants for Smith's mammoth "English Botany" (1790-1814) and 440 mushrooms for "Coloured Figures of English Fungi " (1797) among many other works.
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Album / Florilegius
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Image size:
3548 x 4781 px | 48.5 MB
Print size:
30.0 x 40.5 cm | 11.8 x 15.9 in (300 dpi)
Keywords:
1832 • ARBOL • BOTANICAL • BOTANY • BOTANY • BOTANY • CONE • CONIFER • COPPERPLATE • DRUGS • ENGRAVED • ENGRAVING (ARTWORK) • ENGRAVING • ENGRAVING. • ENGRAVINGS • ETCHING • EVERGREEN • FIR • FLORAL • HANDCOLOURED • HERB • HERBAL • HOOKER • ILLUSTRATION • ILLUSTRATIONS • JACKSON • JAMES • MEDICAL • MEDICINAL • MEDICINE • NEEDLE • PINE • PINUS • PRINT • SCOTCH • SCOTS • SIR • SOWERBY • SPIRE • SYLVESTRIS • TREE • TREES • UMBRELLA PINE • WILLIAM • WOODVILLE
