Caption:
Botanical illustration of the jonquil, Narcissus jonquilla, showing parts of flower. Lithograph by Verneuil with pochoir (stencil) handcoloring from Eugene Grasset's “Plants and their Application to Ornament,” Paris, 1897. Grasset (1841-1917) was a Swiss artist whose innovative designs inspired the “art nouveau” movement at the end of the 19th century.