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Caption: Opium poppy, Papaver somniferum. Handcoloured copperplate botanical engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Afbeelding der Artseny-Gewassen," Jan Christiaan Sepp, Amsterdam, 1796. Zorn first published his illustrated medical botany in Nurnberg in 1780 with 500 plates, and a Dutch edition followed in 1796 published by J.C. Sepp with an additional 100 plates. Zorn (1739-1799) was a German pharmacist and botanist who collected medical plants from all over Europe for his "Icones plantarum medicinalium" for apothecaries and doctors.
Credit: Album / Florilegius
Image size: 4102 × 6603 px | 77.5 MB
Print size: 34.7 × 55.9 cm | 1615.0 × 2599.6 in (300 dpi)